# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Nov 10, 2016)

• A synthetic virus created to treat cancer in dogs was discussed, with a link shared to an article on lifeboat.com describing this therapeutic approach.

• There was a brief technical discussion about ImplicitCAD, noting that at its core it functions as a raytracer which is better for curves but slower than symbolic generators.

• Phage display techniques were discussed, with observations about sea water being one of the densest natural sources for phages, containing up to 9×10^8 virions per milliliter in microbial mats.

• Phage-ligand technology was mentioned, which is a technology that uses bacteriophage-derived proteins to detect, bind, and remove bacteria and bacterial toxins.

• A question was raised about rendering 3D images of proteins, with a suggestion that there's a Blender plugin for PyMOL that could be used for this purpose.