Zika virus kills embryonal CNS tumors

In a paper published in Cancer Research, researchers at the University of Sao Paulo suggested that Zika virus could be used to treat embryonal CNS tumors.

Embryonal CNS tumors, which typically occur in infants, arise from defects in neural stem and progenitor cells during embryonic development. The tumors are made up of cancer stem cells, which have neural stem-like features and are resistant to standard cancer therapies...