[silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
The paper cited below is available here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/27/11197 Udhay http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=628 July 10th, 2007 Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One

Re: [silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria So who/what will contain these viruses? You cannot, after all, assume that these would be entirely good for us human. With due respect to the scientists, I suspect anything bioengineered, possibly influenced by too many

Re: [silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:15:48PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: So who/what will contain these viruses? You cannot, after all, assume So who/what will contain pathogenic biofilms? that these would be entirely good for us human. With due respect to the Why? These just vanilla engineered