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Healthcare Mondays: Scientists find an ancient virus might be the key to treating lung cancer

by Bethany Dawson The remnants of ancient viruses that remain in human DNA can help people fight lung cancer, a new study has found. Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, partly funded by Cancer Research UK, have found that these viruses, called endogenous retroviruses, are dormant in most people but can be awoken in cancer tissue. But whenContinue reading “Healthcare Mondays: Scientists find an ancient virus might be the key to treating lung cancer”