I am Legendary Oncolytic Virus

Bad news for those of us who think that oncolytic viruses show great potential as cancer therapeutics is coming out of Hollywood. I haven't seen it but apparently the plot of 'I am Legend' starring The Fresh Prince revolves around an cancer curing virus mutating and killing almost everyone except his Freshness.
From wikipedia (I am Legend):

A genetically reengineered measles virus called Krippen Virus or KV, created as a cancer cure by Dr. Alice Krippen (Emma Thompson), rapidly spreads and wipes out the population of the world by the end of 2009, leaving military virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) the last human survivor in New York City and possibly the world.

The virus killed 90% of the people on the planet; fewer than one percent are immune. The remaining survivors were infected, initially exhibiting the early symptoms of rabies, but then degenerated into an animal state driven by hunger and blind rage. Neville is watched by these "Infected" people, who react painfully to UV radiation. They therefore avoid sunlight and hide in the dark underground, and in buildings (in groups called "hives" by Neville), swarming out at night. Dogs and rats are also susceptible to the virus. By 2012, Neville has not seen another normal human being since the virus' release three years earlier, and suspects that the Infected have succeeded in killing the remainder of the immune survivors. Neville is outnumbered by the infected and running out of time as he seeks a cure.

Some pretty bad press for a treatment that's just getting out of the gates, and this might be the first time many people hear about the potential of treating cancer with replicating viruses.

Bayblab scientist becomes famous

Bayman, who recently made it to the front page of nature (.com) is mentioned in this story in the Ottawa Citizen. The story has some quotes from John Bell but they unfortunately ended up cutting Bayman out of the picture. Its always entertaining to see a PI actually stepping in the lab and having to borrow someone's lab coat so they can be photographed holding some randomly coloured solution in a Erlenmeyer, pretending to point at stuff on a blot, all of this while pipeting water. There is also the artsy lab shot, where the portrait is taken across a shelf holding solutions as in this case. I guess people would rather not know that it is young students that are on the front line of cancer research, they rather imagine it's a greying bearded man smoking a pipe on a perpetual bad hair day, with telescopic glasses working in some obscure basement-lab, perhaps under a volcano or something. unfortunately, the article fails to mention the bayblab, a much more authoritative source on all things sciency...