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To be honest, I’ve been looking at viral therapy for a while now. My “research” is done with pen and paper instead of a lab, but I believe the answer is close.

There’s a research lab in FL that specializes in finding aptomers that bind to a specific cancer and nothing else. It seems like it should be possible to use that when engineering an anti-cancer virus.

What I was toying with was a virus that not only included that aptomer, but also had 10 different “stop” buttons. Things like vulnerability to a certain medication, protein markers for something the immune system would target, that sort of thing. That way even if it mutated, it could be stopped.

But then, like I said, that’s only on paper. I figured if I ever came up with something I could send it to a real researcher. Instead, all I have are notebooks filled with gibberish.

I do strange things when I’m bored.