Interesting that Dr. Robert O. Becker proposed a crystalline 
origin of life which somewhat later was clad in protein, in his 
book Body Electric, which was published I think in 1985. He said 
it was the most probable because it provides the necessary 
structure, the mechanism to self repair, and a variable current 
carrying ability are built in properties, or words to that 
effect.

Duncan

>   Later studies by another group reached different results, suggesting
>   peculiar yet inanimate etiology of the disease. A paper published in
>   2000 by  a team led by John Cisar of the US  National  Institutes of
>   Health proposed that the "self-replication" was, in fact, an unusual
>   form of crystaline growth, and that contamination may have  been the
>   source of the DNA. However, the Cisar group did not as part of their
>   study examine   nanobacteria   samples   from   the  Kajander group,
>   therefore critics  observed that without such a  control  sample the
>   assertion that these were self-replicating crystals or contamination
>   had not been substantiated.
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobacteria
> 
>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
>   Nanobacteria have no relation to the pathogens you discussed.
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   Mike Monett
> 
>   Antiviral Antibacterial Silver Solution:
>   http://silversol.freewebpage.org/index.htm
>   SPICE Analysis of Crystal Oscillators:
>   http://silversol.freewebpage.org/spice/xtal/clapp.htm
>   Noise-Rejecting Wideband Sampler:
>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/add.automation/sampler/intro.htm
> 
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