{"id":2145707,"date":"2024-01-10T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-work-to-utilize-zika-virus-to-heal-certain-childhood-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:19:58","slug":"researchers-work-to-utilize-zika-virus-to-heal-certain-childhood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-work-to-utilize-zika-virus-to-heal-certain-childhood-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists study Zika virus for potential childhood cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresearchers-work-to-utilize-zika-virus-to-heal-certain-childhood-cancer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2145707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Adult female mosquitoes are seen under a microscope\u2064 at the Sun Yat-Sen \u2062University-Michigan University Joint Center of \u2063Vector Control for Tropical Disease on June\u2063 21, 2016 in Guangzhou, China. Considered the world\u2019s largest mosquito factory, the \u2064laboratory \u2062raises\u2063 millions of male mosquitos for research that could prove key to the race to prevent \u2064the spread of Zika virus. (Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>1:55 PM \u2063\u2013 Wednesday, January 10, 2024<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers are now working to cure a fatal form of childhood \u200bcancer using a deadly African virus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Zika virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, <strong>decreases\u2063 levels of a \u2064protein<\/strong> that young patients with specific cancers have. Most cases of the Zika virus transmission involve mosquito bites, unprotected sexual contact between individuals, and transmission from pregnant \u2064women to their offspring. <\/p>\n<p>It was discovered by Nemours Children\u2019s Health researchers in Florida that the Zika virus may have the potential to\u2064 <strong>shrink \u200dneuroblastoma\u200c tumors<\/strong>, which are tumors \u2064that \u200cform in the nerve\u2063 cells during childhood \u200cdevelopment and account\u2064 for 1-in-7 \u200ccancer-related \u200cdeaths in \u2063children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Matthew Davis<\/strong> of Nemours Children\u2019s\u200d Health, who is\u2064 partially credited with orchestrating \u200bthe scientific findings, stated that the crew is at \u200bthe \u201cforefront of potentially lifesaving cancer treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe are hopeful that this study \u2063will pave the way toward improved survival for \u200cpatients with neuroblastoma,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2064developmental \u2062protein CD24 is produced by cancers such as neuroblastoma and it has been demonstrated that the Zika \u2063virus targets and reduces the protein. In individuals with normal CD24 levels, this has previously produced some birth\u2062 abnormalities such as microcephaly.<\/p>\n<p>The Zika virus has \u200bbeen shown to lower CD24 levels in\u200d patients\u200c with elevated\u200d levels of the \u200dprotein. As a result, the tumors significantly reduced in size. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Tamarah Westmoreland<\/strong>, the\u200c study\u2019s author and an associate professor of surgery at Nemours Children\u2019s Health, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hulk-hogan-baptized-calls-dedicating-life-to-jesus-greatest-day-of-my-life\/\" title=\"Hulk Hogan baptized, hails dedicating life to Jesus as 'best day ever\">young cancer patients<\/a> are \u201cin urgent\u2062 need of new treatment options.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cMore than half of patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-sox-surprise-7-year-old-cancer-survivor\/\" title=\"White Sox surprise 7 year old cancer survivor\">high-risk neuroblastoma<\/a> do not respond to \u200dchemotherapy or \u200bradiation, or they respond \u2064initially, but develop a recurrence,\u201d Westmoreland said.\u200b \u201cThese patients are in urgent need of new treatment options.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, \u200d <strong>Dr. Joseph\u2062 Mazar<\/strong>, another author of the study and a research scientist at Nemours Children\u2019s\u200b Health, posted a statement regarding the \u200dvirus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWith further validation, \u2062Zika virus could be an \u200bextremely effective bridge therapy \u2064for patients with high-risk neuroblastoma,\u201d Mazar said.\u2062 \u201cWe also see potential for Zika virus to be used to treat children and [even] adults with other \u2063cancers that express high levels of CD24.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neuroblastoma usually occurs in children under the age of 5 and \u200bthere are \u2064typically about 700 to 800 cases every \u2063year.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive \u2064breaking news \u2064blasts directly to your inbox \u200dfor free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this\u200d post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Several NFL teams begin their search for new head coaches.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The prosecution of January 6th attendees\u200b continues. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s president declares a state of \u201cinternal armed conflict\u201d \u2062and identified more than 20 gangs as terrorist groups making them military targets. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The SEC\u2064 gets \u201chacked\u201d into approving BTC ETF, \u2063part five\u2062 of the Epstein files gets dropped and Ecuador \u200derupts into chaos.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Google is set to go before a federal\u2064 jury \u2063in Boston on Tuesday over accusations that its processors infringe a \u2064computer scientist\u2019s patents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>OpenAI and its financial backer\u200d Microsoft\u200d were sued in Manhattan federal court by \u2062a pair\u2064 of nonfiction authors who say\u200b the companies misused \u200ctheir work to train\u2062 the AI models behind AI-based\u2062 services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>SpaceX \u200csued a U.S. labor board to \u200dblock its case \u2063accusing the company of illegally firing employees calling CEO Elon Musk \u2062\u201ca distraction and embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>ChatGPT was well \u200con its way to becoming a household name even before 2023 kicked off.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How does the Zika virus target and reduce\u2063 the production of the\u2063 CD24\u2062 developmental protein\u2063 in neuroblastoma tumors?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Nder the age of five \u200cand is a type of cancer\u200d that\u200b develops from immature nerve cells. It\u2064 is a challenging form \u2063of cancer to treat, with limited options available. \u2063Therefore, the potential use \u2062of the Zika virus as a treatment for neuroblastoma is a significant development in the field of pediatric oncology.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b study conducted by \u200cNemours Children&#8217;s\u2063 Health researchers\u2062 in Florida explored the\u2062 effects of the Zika virus \u200bon neuroblastoma tumors. It was\u2064 found \u200dthat \u200cthe virus targets and reduces the production of a developmental protein called CD24, which is produced by neuroblastoma and other cancers. The reduction in \u2063CD24\u200d levels resulted in a significant reduction in tumor size.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Matthew \u200dDavis, one of the researchers involved in the study, expressed optimism about the potential of \u2063this treatment. He stated that\u200c they\u2062 are at the forefront of potentially lifesaving cancer treatment and\u2064 hope that this study will pave\u200d the way for improved\u2064 survival rates in patients\u200b with neuroblastoma.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u200d Tamarah Westmoreland, the author of the study, emphasized the urgent need\u2062 for new treatment options for\u2062 young \u2064cancer patients. Currently,\u200d more than\u200c half of high-risk neuroblastoma patients do not respond \u2063to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy\u2063 or radiation, or they initially respond\u2063 but develop a recurrence. The potential use of the Zika\u2062 virus \u2062as a bridge\u200c therapy could offer\u200c hope to these patients.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joseph Mazar, another author of the study, highlighted the broader potential of using the Zika virus to treat other cancers that express high levels of CD24. This \u200ccould\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-okay-budget-resolution-fuels-spending-concerns\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats okay budget resolution, fuels spending concerns\">potentially benefit<\/a> not \u200donly children but also adults with CD24-expressing cancers.<\/p>\n<p>However, further \u200dvalidation and research are necessary to ensure the safety and efficacy of \u2062using the Zika virus as a cancer treatment. The Zika virus \u2064is\u2064 well-known for its association \u2064with birth abnormalities \u200dsuch as\u2063 microcephaly\u200b when contracted by pregnant women. Therefore, precautions\u2062 must be taken to minimize\u200c any\u2064 potential risks.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the use of\u200d the\u200c Zika virus as\u200d a treatment for neuroblastoma shows promise in reducing tumor\u200d size \u200band offering new treatment \u2063options for patients who do not respond to traditional therapies. This \u200bstudy opens \u200dup exciting possibilities for the field of pediatric oncology and provides hope for young cancer \u2064patients and their \u2063families. \u200cFurther research and clinical \u200ctrials are warranted to fully explore the potential of the Zika virus\u200c as a cancer treatment\u2063 and ensure \u200bits safety and effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult female mosquitoes are observed under a microscope at the Sun Yat-Sen University-Michigan University Joint Center of Vector Control for Tropical Disease in Guangzhou, China. 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