A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate ...

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically ...

A new polio vaccine from India gains WHO prequalification, boosting global supply to fight type 2 outbreaks and protect children from the virus.

A technique developed several years ago at Duke University involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer. A new study ...

The modified poliovirus received a breakthrough therapy designation from the Food and Drug Administration last year, expediting research. "We have had a general understanding of how the modified ...

An inactivated form of the poliovirus used to treat recurrent brain tumors is showing what researchers called encouraging long-term survival in a Phase 1 clinical trial published Tuesday. The authors ...

In 2015, a team of researchers at Duke University was launched into the spotlight by CBS news show 60 Minutes, which devoted a two-part segment to research aimed at turning poliovirus into a treatment ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

"Oncolytic virus therapy" uses human viruses to fight cancer. Glioblastoma is a type of brain cancer that has recently been quite visible in the media after Sen. John McCain was treated for it.

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) ...

Motor-nerve cells in the spinal cord, which carry signals from the brain to muscles and glands, don’t regenerate once injured—with long-term consequences for accident victims. If scientists could ...