That's an interesting reference to the fiction books.
As for the phage research, - the group I was interacting with was in the
US, but it was them who told me about research on phage-therapy in Russia
and Georgia. I was shown a movie about a phage-therapy center/clinic,
I believe in Tbilisi, Georgia (but it could've been in Russia), which the
professor from that group labeled as "PolitProp". :-)
There are videos about that on Youtube.
The same researchers explained why phage therapy is not broadly developed,
at least in the US, despite the available expertise. Yes, "the capitalism"
is the answer: a phage and its use cannot be patented. So, any investment
a biomed company would put toward producing the cure would not be
protected, as it is usually done with any type of drugs.
Hence, companies have no or very little incentives to develop this type of
cure. Time-to-time, the interest to phages in the US is sparked by the
spread of antibiotic/antimicrobal-resistant bacteria, such as MRSA.
I've even heard some anectodal evidence of MRSA being effectively cured
informally at a phage research lab.
But...
In the mean time, - it sounds like if one is desperate, s/he might just
grab some mud and rub over the affected area, in the hopes that there were
the right phages there.
One of the possible projects that we discussed was to use phase for some
type of "nano-lithography".
Igor
mike wilson Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:02:38 -0700 wrote:
On 18 August 2015 at 03:48, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote:
Several years ago, in my work, I interacted with a group who were experts on
bacteriophages or phages. I was fascinated by the description how those
function. But those didn't sound as gruesome as parasites.
Russia (and 0ther Warsaw pact countries) did very advanced work on
using phages (viruses that only attack bacteria) for infection
therapy. I'm surprised, given the advances in genetic manipulation,
that they haven't completely overtaken antibiotics by now. The vested
interests of capitalism at work, no doubt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Note the reference to fictional works at the end of the article. It's
not quite parasites but it's nearly there.
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