>Turn the liver into a factory for making a bioscavenger enzyme. Led by biochemist Nageswararao Chilukuri, they used a harmless virus called an adeno-associated

>Turn the liver into a factory for making a bioscavenger enzyme. Led by biochemist Nageswararao Chilukuri, they used a harmless virus called an adeno-associated virus to ferry DNA instructions into the liver cells of mice. The result was the mice’s liver cells cranking out a potent version of PON1. >Mice injected with the DNA-ferrying virus soon had high blood levels of the synthetic PON1 enzyme, which remained stable for the 5-month study. The rodents survived nine normally lethal injections of nerve agents over 6 weeks now imagine that that virus and/or enzyme finds its way into cockroaches and the likes - the acquired resistance against the organophosphates (the nerve gases were a result of research into insecticides) would make them into super-cockroaches able to resist the humans' weapons of mass cockroach destruction, ie. insecticides.