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Interferon and Virotherapy

Interferon and Virotherapy. Casey, 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.

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Interferon and Virotherapy

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  1. Interferon and Virotherapy Casey, Kyle, Mark, Wyt

  2. What is Virotherapy? • New form of cancer treatment • Utilizes viruses to target cancer cells • Safer than modern cancer treatments • Targeted treatment

  3. Why Viruses? • Common and well understood • Natural • Variety • Size • Programmable

  4. Relation to Nanotech • Size in Nanometers • Avg. 10 and 300 Nanometers • Related to Gene Therapy • Emphasis on DNA and proteins • “Drug Delivery”

  5. Interferon • Present in healthy cell • Prevents viral reproduction • Alerts immune system • Lacked by cancerous cells

  6. Our Model

  7. Battery Resistor LED Our Model The Construction • Materials • Practicality • Schematic

  8. Our Model • Virus • Normal Cell • Cancerous Cell

  9. Our Model • Scale Disparity • Virus to Cell • Cancerous Cell to Normal Cell

  10. Our Model • Purpose • Magnets • LEDs

  11. The End

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