Some of the ways that we perform our experiments and trials on the chimera virus obviously include testing on live organisms, specifically monkeys. These animals have been shown to exhibit similar symptoms when infected with chimera and thus have been chosen to perform trials on so that a potential cure can be discovered. They are infected either with blood samples containing the virus or with special nano injectors which can inject DNA containing the virus into the cells of these monkeys.
Once the monkeys are infected the next set of trials is to observe them over a period of several days to weeks looking for specific symptoms akin to those observed in humans. Once symptoms start to be observed the specific drugs (currently a combination of those used to treat the specific diseases found in the recombinant form of chimera) are administered to the monkeys and they are then further observed. While some tend to live most others are not affected whatsoever and are still killed off.
Either way blood samples of all the monkeys are taken and are then tested under electron microscopes and other lab paraphernalia to observe what has happened to the infected cells. The data is then recorded as to how the cells are affected and in what ways changes can be made to the drugs being administered. As of now we have yet to achieve any conclusive results.