Virus Battery

MIT researchers have used a genetically modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.

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HIV evolving at warp speed

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the fastest evolving entities known. That's why no one has yet been able to come up with a vaccine: The virus mutates so rapidly that what works today in one person may not work tomorrow or in others.

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Oncolytic virus - Curing cancer with a virus

An oncolytic virus is a virus that preferentially infects and lyses cancer cells; these have obvious functions for cancer therapy, both by direct destruction of the tumour cells, and, if modified, as vectors enabling genes expressing anticancer proteins to be delivered specifically to the tumor site.

The Seneca Valley Virus is a naturally-occurring (and untweaked) virus which has been shown in clinical trials to be remarkably effective at treating some of the more nasty human cancer types while presenting no threat to the human body itself.

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