A new idea for killing the cells produced by cancer is to identify a cancer cell and find out it genetic information and then produces a virus that kill that cells. Is there any way to realize this idea and therefore hopefully cure the patients with cancer problem?
Look up "synthetic lethality" and "oncolytic virus": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_lethality#Synthetic_lethality_in_chemotherapeutics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncolytic_virus
Hi there,
The approach of drug targeting using a specific surface determinant for drug delivery is the approach used with oncolytic viruses to target cancer cells.
Hi Vahid,
Perhaps you could start by taking a look at the biochemicals that elicit responses of viruses. In other words, how do normal cells interact with viruses. Then, look at what elicitors are present in cancer cells to see if viruses respond to those biochemicals. There must be some virus that targets cancer or cancer-like cells, right? Have you explored the Journal of Virology or any cancer journals dealing with viral interactions? Perhaps HIV-related journal articles? You may gain some insights if you look up HIV virus-cellular interactions, which you could use as a model for your cancer-curing virus. I hope this shed some light :)
Anyone with the answer to this question will earn a Nobel Prize. I suspect a long road ahead before this is possible. Think outside of the box, and good luck.
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