On 8/18/2015 8:11 PM, Bill wrote:
On 18/08/2015 11:17 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
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.
Interesting that Socialism is actually superior to Capitalism in this
regard.
bill
That's assuming that they actually worked. Don't let anyone kid you, we
still know little enough about the how genes actually work to create
tailored cures no matter what the carrier either phage or engineered bio
agents. I have hopes that we're really less than 20 years away from an
actual breakthrough, as opposed to having been 10 years away from
commercial fusion power, for the last 60 years.
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
