They may be viruses, but they're our viruses

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

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

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  2. 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

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  3. It's good news, potentially, anyway.

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