Samantha Garcia-Cardenas
samanthagco.bsky.social
Samantha Garcia-Cardenas
@samanthagco.bsky.social
Researcher 🦠
Reposted by Samantha Garcia-Cardenas
Sometimes, viruses don't have to be the bad guys...
Sometimes we can use one to treat another!

Chuffed to present excellent work from Dr Samantha Garcia-Cardenas showing how the innate immune system can be "rewired" by a benign Reovirus to eliminate SARS2 infection.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Oncolytic Reovirus mediates innate-driven SARS-CoV-2 elimination in the absence of cell toxicity
Interplay between type I interferon (IFN) driven innate responses and viral antagonism strongly influences SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the COVID-19 disease course. Hence, variant adaptation includes d...
www.biorxiv.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM