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	tricking bacteria to cure disease

jimbo1000

1-27-2009 12:38 PM

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jimbo1000 says:

so use nature's own tools, or, go with the flow

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together and relying on sheer numbers to endure hazardous conditions. 
This means that many have to sacrifice themselves for the needs of the
many, and in a very un-Spock way some cells say "Screw that for a game
of soldiers."  These bacteria learn to cheat by listening in on
community chemical communications but refusing to join in.  These
pathogenic pretenders rapidly consume resources and out-multiply their
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better at cheating than them.  Professor Stuart West has found that
introducing them into an otherwise healthy sicknesses (oxymoron and
all) significantly reduces the effectiveness of the infection.  The
bacterial Benedict Arnolds rapidly swamp the original bacteria, but are
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