Thursday, April 3, 2008
Anthrax technology.
Yesterday's presentation on anthrax was very interesting. The part about the relative size of the spore and how few spores are needed to be considered lethal was especially interesting. I was thinking that if scientists can harness this power and potency, then medicines can become more effective. If a required dose calls for say 100ml, with the new technology which is based off of the anthrax spores, the dosage needed would be minute compared to this. And since anthrax can affect the body by means of ingestion, inhalation, and contact, this means that there are even more possibilities for medicine. If we can use some sort of genetic engineering to alter the DNA in anthrax which allows it to do this, then we can splice it together with living medicine, such as fungi to create a cure which can do this also.
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