Molecular Biologist Sandra Weller Talks about "What's Possible"

What my research team hopes to make possible is a new therapy to treat a ubiquitous and formidable foe - the herpes simplex virus.

There has been an epic evolutionary battle being waged between viruses and humans for millions of years. Herpes simplex is one of the nastiest and most common viruses that infect humans. It's found in over two-thirds of the world's population, and is responsible for oral, genital, and sight-threatening eye infections in adults and severe birth defects in infected newborns.