Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast
Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast
Nemours Children's Health
Ep. 49: Beyond the Mosquito - Exploring Zika's Impact on Neuroblastoma
20 minutes Posted Jan 15, 2024 at 10:00 am.
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New research indicates that injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus can shrink or eliminate those tumors in mice, suggesting that the virus could someday serve as an effective cancer therapy. This is newly published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Research Communications, from the American Association for Cancer Research. On this week's episode, we hear from the study's lead, Dr. Tamarah Westmoreland, and first author, Dr. Joseph Mazar, both with Nemours Children’s Health, about th...