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Originally Posted by Deuce Bigalow
Funny this should come up. My mom worked in the lab they discovered it (she wasn't part of the team who discovered it though), and its is a very interesting. From what I heard (and this was a w ago, probably getting all sorts of details wrong) it is a very interesting product. I heard of how they could inject mice with the virus and it would then "hunt down" the cancer cells as they had a specific path that was activated when the cancer was present.
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If you're really interested, it's a protein called PKR and it's actually the opposite - PKR is sometimes shut down in cancer cells, and reovirus can only properly replicate in cells that have no PKR, so it only replicates and kills specifically PKR downregulated cells.
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