Hmm…ultimate breakthrough….

Well, here’s a huge problem. When viruses replicate, they’re usually very messy replicators. They’re just not very good at correctly copying their own blueprints. You’d think that would make them fragile, but what it actually does is spit out a metric ass-ton of mutations that can be impossible to treat! It’s a huge problem with HIV treatment, and one of the reasons why it’s so important to take an antiviral medication exactly as prescribed. It’s also why a “cure for the common cold” is pretty much impossible.

So….something that reduces the mutation tendency? Something that anticipates mutation patterns and antigenic drifts and/or shifts so you can vaccinate against new strains?