As the Zika virus continues to spread there has been renewed attention on the issue of how to treat viruses–such as Zika, Ebola and Dengue–that not only spread rapidly, but that are prone to mutate and become resistant to medication. Now, IBM and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology claim to be close to an extraordinary cure; a macromolecule that can kill wildly different viruses, and even wipe out herpes and influenza. Current treatments for viral illness tend to attack the DNA or RNA of the virus itself; the problem is that these characteristics vary from virus to virus, and are prone to mutate, thus rendering virus-specific, once-successful treatments ineffective. What IBM and there researcher partners have done is look at the static properties universal to all viruses. As a result, the researchers focused on the glycoproteins that form a coating around all viruses. No matter what the virus, this sugary coating has electric charges (some positive, some