Interferon and VirotherapyCasey, Kyle, Mark, Wyt

What is Virotherapy?

• New form of cancer treatment

• Utilizes viruses to target cancer cells

• Safer than modern cancer treatments

• Targeted treatment

Why Viruses?

• Common and well understood

• Natural

• Variety

• Size

• Programmable

Relation to Nanotech

• Size in Nanometers– Avg. 10 and 300 Nanometers

• Related to Gene Therapy

• Emphasis on DNA and proteins

• “Drug Delivery”

Interferon

• Present in healthy cell

• Prevents viral reproduction

• Alerts immune system

• Lacked by cancerous cells

Our Model

Our Model

• Materials

• Practicality

• Schematic

The Construction

Battery

LED

Resistor

Our Model

• Virus

• Normal Cell

• Cancerous Cell

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• Scale Disparity– Virus to Cell– Cancerous Cell

to Normal Cell

Our Model

• Purpose– Magnets– LEDs

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