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Obviously not a biologist, but if you could target a specific protein on the bacterial surface it might work. Alternatively you could CRISPR some human cells th
by mmastrac 6y ago
Obviously not a biologist, but if you could target a specific protein on the bacterial surface it might work. Alternatively you could CRISPR some human cells that generate the bacteria-killing RNA constantly.
- passivate 6y agoYes, that would be super cool. But also crazy-risky!! :) But the risk is not due to chance, its due to the unknowns. Once they're no longer unknowns we'll be able to engineer such a therapy. Alternatively, once we understand our biology so well, we might as well just patch all the "bugs" so that we don't get infected by harmful pathogens. Or maybe forsake our biology and move on to Silicon ?