January 5

[Sa'ar Chasm]

It involves creating viruses that can only replicate in (and destroy) cancer cells. Oncoviruses, as they're called, are to current chemotherapy as carpet bombing is to a precise guided missile.

Haven't you got that backwards?

As a chemist, I'm obliged to plug photodynamic therapy, especially if someone comes up with a pH-sensitive drug so you don't have to sit in the dark for three hours after the treatment.

Science threadjack well under way.