An underbite problem?"Seek and Destroy: Virus attacks cancer, spares normal cells" (SN: 12/6/03, p. 356) described the use of the mosquito-borne Sindbis virus Sindbis virus n. An alphavirus that is the causative agent of Sindbis fever. to kill cancer cells cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. See also: Cancer in lab dishes and mice. It would be interesting to determine whether the human population of the Egyptian town of Sindbis exhibits a reduced incidence of certain cancers. Perhaps large-scale efforts directed toward elimination of the mosquito in populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. areas are reducing beneficial, insectborne inoculations worldwide. JOHN T. PETRICK, NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA FLA Florida (old style) FLA Macromedia Flash (file extension) FLA Flash Files (file extension) FLA Fair Labor Association FLA Front Line Assembly . |
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