Promising Anti-cancer Virus

An engineered virus, injected into the blood, can selectively target cancer cells throughout the body in what researchers have labeled a medical first.

According to the journal Nature, in a small trial on 23 patients, the virus attacked only tumours, leaving the healthy tissue alone. Researchers said the findings could one day "truly transform" therapies.

Using viruses to attack cancers is not a new concept, but they have needed to be injected directly into tumours in order to evade the immune system.
Scientists modified the vaccinia virus, which is more famous for being used to develop a smallpox vaccine.

The virus, named JX-594, is dependent upon a chemical pathway, common in some cancers, in order to replicate was injected at different doses into the blood of 23 patients with cancers which had spread to multiple organs in the body.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14730608

FBI evidence from 9/11 first shown in Newseum

WASHINGTON – Newseum, a journalism museum in Washington, is expanding its current FBI exhibit with a new section, "War on Terror: The FBI's New Focus." Many clues that were later uncovered about the 9/11 mastermind's activities, which have been stored in the FBI's evidence lockers, are now going on public view for the first time Friday.

Among 60 new artifacts on view are engines and landing gear from passenger planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and some personal items, such as a wallet of Ruth McCourt of New London, Conn., who was taking her 4-year-old daughter Juliana to Disneyland on United Flight 175 before it crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, and cell phones found in the rubble that rung for days after the attacks as family members tried desperately to find their loved ones. Ten years after the attacks, the Newseum said it was time to examine the impact.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/01/3878362/newseum-in-dc-1st-to-show-fbi.html