Microbiological Honeypots

Neat idea on the way home: wouldn’t it be nifty to “catch” pathogens as they infect the body by advertising “I am a cell ready for infection” (bet there are marker proteins for that), then perform the bait and switch on them as they make their move, walling them away and exposing them to the immune system as a form of proactive, adaptive, and needle-less vaccine?

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