• Bacteria-Eating Viruses 'Magic Bullets in the War On Superbugs'
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[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;42645522]Russia's been using/researching Phages since the 1920s. And they don't have the worries of superbugs as us pill-happy Americans.[/QUOTE] Got any sources on that? I'm not doubting you I just want to see stuff about it
[QUOTE=Furioso;42645423]these things are so fucking weird why do they have legs when most life at that size are amorphous blobs ?[/QUOTE] Cows have legs, crabs have legs, spiders too. Then why shouldn't self-replicating molecular bacteria eating nano robots of pure death also have a pair? okay, that is wierd... It is either man-made or it is simply just another example of mother nature's evolutionary ingenuity.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;42645691]Got any sources on that? I'm not doubting you I just want to see stuff about it[/QUOTE] Earliest record by Felix d'Herelle, its in Hebrew but I'm sure there are english transcribed versions of it. [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143702"]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143702[/URL] I'm sure there are alot of old USSR documents on phage therapy floating around the public domain as well.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;42643830] These are pretty safe things. [/QUOTE] except for the autism [T]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HdOdy1a4Kak/S1faphO8GsI/AAAAAAAABOs/OUDCxRrgL7g/s400/rk.png[/T]
I don't understand why everyone here is so worried and uninformed about Bacteriophages and viruses in general. I learned about that shit in high school Biology. Viruses that attack Prokaryotic organisms cannot attack Eukaryotic organisms. There isn't going to be a "rouge virus" that decides that it would prefer to replicate in human cells than the smelly bacteria it uses now.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;42647935]Earliest record by Felix d'Herelle, its in Hebrew but I'm sure there are english transcribed versions of it. [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143702"]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143702[/URL] I'm sure there are alot of old USSR documents on phage therapy floating around the public domain as well.[/QUOTE] I looked at some other stuff and it seems the Polish are already doing trials with it on MRSA and is also used in Georgia (although the Russian Federation decided to destroy one of the institutes during the georgian civil war *sigh*). Guess it should solve that nasty problem though.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;42643608]I can't see this going wrong at all.[/QUOTE] a bacteriophage evolving to target humans would be like a mouse evolving to have a diet consisting of lions and elephants with a small portion of photosynthesis if they can't find any lions to kill with their hyper beams
[QUOTE=froztshock;42643629]Bacteriophages are pretty specialized for prokaryotic cells I think. The chances of them spreading to humans are incredibly low. I'd be more worried about introducing another resistance or something accidentally.[/QUOTE] Well even if they do gain a resistance, wont the virus evolve to that resistance?
[QUOTE=zakedodead;42648125]except for the autism [T]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HdOdy1a4Kak/S1faphO8GsI/AAAAAAAABOs/OUDCxRrgL7g/s400/rk.png[/T][/QUOTE] What?
Yeah I just hope that this does not go down the same path as antibiotics are going down as of right now, that or bad things happen because of the viruses that are modified to attack the bacteria resulting in really bad side effects.
[QUOTE=rsa1988;42653142]Yeah I just hope that this does not go down the same path as antibiotics are going down as of right now, that or bad things happen because of the viruses that are modified to attack the bacteria resulting in really bad side effects.[/QUOTE] Like what?
What's with all the optimistic ratings. People have considered this idea for a while now. Bacteriophages only go after bacteria, people. It's a pretty good idea; both host and parasite are always in an evolutionary arms race, so that bacteria will never be completely resistant to the virusses the way they became resistant to the antibiotics.
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