One of modern medicine's biggest challenges today is viruses. Despite great advances in many fields of medicine, some diseases caused by viruses are still extremely hard to treat. Israeli company Vecoy aims to change all that with a new approach: creating synthetic cells that lure the viruses away from the body they are trying to infect.

The discovery of a mummified Korean child with relatively preserved organs enabled an Israeli-South Korean scientific team to conduct a genetic analysis on a liver biopsy, which revealed a unique hepatitis B virus (HBV) common in Southeast Asia.