Could DNA from a virus millions of years old be the key to new nerve tumour therapies?

Could DNA from a virus millions of years old be key to new nerve tumour therapies?

Dr Sylwia Ammoun, Senior Research Fellow at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has been awarded a grant in excess of £65,000 by children’s charity Action Medical Research, to investigate new drug treatments for neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) – and the secret may lie in sequences of DNA from viruses that are millions of years old.

NF2 is a genetic condition...