There once was a lady who swallowed a fly
Now those wacky scientists have genetically engineered HIV into a cancer therapy.
The UCLA AIDS Institute scientists genetically altered HIV and folded it into an envelope made of another virus called sindbis, which typically infects insects and birds. That turned the altered HIV into a missile that hunted down metastasized melanoma cells in the lungs of living mice.
And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glowed.
The scientists also inserted a glowing firefly protein into the virus
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