🚀 go-pugleaf

Why would somebody advertise a Virus Creation Lab anyway??? Besides it is always
easier to destroy than to build.  Just because you don't know about it doesn't
mean it doesn't exists.  I bet some natives living in the Brazilian Rain Forest
doesn't know about space shuttles or vehicles that travel in space, but they
exist don't they?

dan the man wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Firestarter wrote:
>
> > hmmm,mabye they can be made to operate on a genetic level.....will get back
> > to ya on that one.
>
> ??  They do work at a genetic level, how do you think they reproduce  ??
> Retroviridae actually integrate into your DNA, which is why they are used
> in genetic engineering and potential future gene therapy.  Still the virus
> has to get into the cell first!
>
> Or are you suggesting a non-selective cellular infection followed by
> selective genomic integration based on DNA sequence specificity?
> Of course that kind of sequence specific integration can be achieved in
> certain systems (re: homologous recombination in yeast and homologous
> recombination in the targetting of embryonic stem cells to produce
> transgenic mice), but it's too messy.
>
> If all the suppositions postulated here about virus creation (there isn't
> a Virus Creation Lab of the biological world!) then we would have the
> perfect system for gene-therapy, a cure for cancer and the ability to
> specifically deliver drugs to the point of action.  Which would be very
> nice, but doesn't EXIST!
>
> dan
>
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