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 bacteriophages. If you inject them, you *might* get an allergic reaction (which might be even life-threatening). If you ingest them, you might get a slight case of the squats. That's waaay more benign that what most people have got in their kitchen. > scientists, I suspect anything bioengineered, possibly influenced by too > many books/movies/games... Why? It's not designed to be a weapon. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
