Lets take cancer cells from a leukemia patient, modify them using HIV as vector, reprogram to fight the other cancer cells like some kind of drunken Irishman, but still have a long life and ability to proliferate wildly just like cancer cells...
I know its been all over the news but this shit is not only astounding also pretty damn cool, but if you read the second to the last paragraph of the abstract it is a little funny/terrible.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1106965 (www.nejm.org)
