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Foot-and-mouth disease could be used to develop cure for 'world's deadliest cancer'

A pancreatic cancer cell. [Courtesy]

Foot and mouth disease could hold the key to curing the world's deadliest cancer, according to new research.

The virus harbours a protein that kills pancreatic tumour cells, British scientists have found.

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