Sorry, folks, I got this wrong: what I was remembering was a renewed
interest in bacteriophages, which are viruses that take over bacteria.
The longstanding and recently revived hope is that some
bacteriophages may be enlisted in new medical cures.
IAW, the enemy of my enemy is my friend . . . .
Apologies.
JBB
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 21:12 Asia/Tokyo, Jonathan B. Britten wrote:
Weirder still, there are pathogens of viruses, a factoid I stumbled
across in a National Geographic I think. These orgamisms were once a
hot topic in science but went out of style, and are are now coming
back into vogue in connection with bio-terrorism worries and the
increasing ineffectiveness of the antiviral medicines available.
The existence of these attackers of viruses is not common knowledge,
methinks . . . I thought I was pretty well informed but until I
stumbled on this article I'd never heard of these creatures.
It's late, I'm tired, and the name of these critters will come to me
as soon as my head hits the pillow. . . .
Any PhDs handy to help us out on this one? I quick Google scan does
not come up with the name. The magazine had a great picture of a
robotic-looking one setting down to inject its spike into a virus.
These things are sort of the viruses of viruses. . . .
Probably we CS people ought to know about this. A good question
would be whether CS has any effect on these what-do-you-call-thems.
JBB
On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 21:05 Asia/Tokyo, Marshall Dudley wrote:
Viruses are on the edge of being defined as alive. They contain dna
or rna,
and they can reproduce, which pretty well puts thm into the category
of life.
They cannot reproduce without a host, but then that is true for all
parasites,
which are alive.
Marshall
mamapug wrote:
Would the word "destroy" sit better??
Either way, silver works!!
Marshalee
OK,
My son keeps reminding me viruses are NOT alive, so how can CS be
said to *kill* them? Anybody know or have a guess at what the
mechanism is of CS disabling viruses? I notice in the personal
studies
many references to CS *killing* viruses but my son insists you can't
kill something that isn't alive, so what does happen? Is this just
sloppy wording?
TIA,
paula
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