Gene delivery is complicated because it's difficult for us to know how to change the properties of the virus. So, in this study, we did it the same way nature does it. By using random mutation, we were able to get about 10 million different variants. Now, we have a lot of versions of the virus to choose from. And we've selected about a half dozen of them that we are focusing on.

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