3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV

Vesicular stomatitis virus, or VSV, has long been a model system used for studying and understanding the life cycle of negative-strand RNA viruses. This negative-stand of RNA viruses causes influenza, measles and rabies. But new research is showing that VSV has the potential to be genetically modified. This can serve as an anti-cancer agent, exercising high selectivity in killing cancer cells while sparing healthy cells, and as a potent vaccine against HIV.

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