They may be viruses, but they're our viruses

Sometimes you gang up on the bully, sometimes you conscript him into service.

3 comments:

Korora said...

I'd figured this was coming ever since I first read about bacteriophages in freshman biology.

E Hines said...

As long as we don't abuse this like we did so many antibiotics, and breed phage-resistant bacteria.

Then there's genome targeting--and Rapid DNA Repair bacteria.

Evolution is unavoidable; we just have to stay ahead of it.

Eric Hines

Grim said...

It's good news, potentially, anyway.