05-02-2010, 06:56 AM
Great Biological Warfare potential.....I'm sure the guys in special ops are drooling..... On the other hand, it could be used to help cure prion-based diseases [by the way I was possibly exposed to CJD at Yale when the CJD-infected mice in the Public Health negative-pressure bio-hazard containment labs got out in the middle of the night and ran all through the building - causing the closing of the building and its fumigation. CJD takes decades to show its signs...something to look forward to.... We always wondered if one of the mice had been named Houdini or someone had an ax to grind [or an experiment to perform on the students].
Anyway, sorry for the diversion - whether it will be used for good or evil [as with most technology and biotechnology is always the question - one rarely asked by researchers - they just follow the grants. Others above make such decisions. Kuru is another prion disease of cannibals who eat the the brains of other humans [some do of their enemies, a few tribes do this of their relatives when they die naturally to honor them and literally have them become of their body]. Prion diseases are never benign - almost always deadly or very incapacitating. A prion is a virus-like particle, but not a virus, smaller and easily transmitted. Great bio-weapon for large populations [could be selective too] or individuals. Mad-cow disease happened because they feed cows other ground-up cows to eat...so it is like Kuru in cows. Mad world, not just 'mad' cows.
Anyway, sorry for the diversion - whether it will be used for good or evil [as with most technology and biotechnology is always the question - one rarely asked by researchers - they just follow the grants. Others above make such decisions. Kuru is another prion disease of cannibals who eat the the brains of other humans [some do of their enemies, a few tribes do this of their relatives when they die naturally to honor them and literally have them become of their body]. Prion diseases are never benign - almost always deadly or very incapacitating. A prion is a virus-like particle, but not a virus, smaller and easily transmitted. Great bio-weapon for large populations [could be selective too] or individuals. Mad-cow disease happened because they feed cows other ground-up cows to eat...so it is like Kuru in cows. Mad world, not just 'mad' cows.
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