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Antibiotics are related to bacteria, which have different mutation mechanisms than viruses. I'm also a tech guy, so someone may correct me. Also, this seems to
by kristjank 1y ago
Antibiotics are related to bacteria, which have different mutation mechanisms than viruses. I'm also a tech guy, so someone may correct me.
Also, this seems to influence the human end to make protective material, not act on the viruses directly.
- busyant 1y agoViruses can acquire resistance by mutation. This has been well established for decades. FWIW, I was trained as a bacterial geneticist and routinely used bacteriophage (viruses that infect bacteria) with various resistance mutations. Viral mutations are not restricted to viruses that infect bacteria. edit: in fact, fundamental aspects of the genetic code were determined by analyzing and exploiting viral mutations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick,_Brenner_et_al._experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick,_Brenner_et_al._experime...
- busyant 1y agoOT: Just replying to myself to ramble a little bit more. The Crick, Brenner et al. paper that I cited above * studied mutations in a viral gene called "rIIB" * the authors used those rIIB mutations to determine that the genetic code was a non-overlapping triplet (now called codons) -- a pretty fundamental discovery. * What's amazing to me is that they still have NO IDEA what the rIIB gene actually _does_, mechanistically. It's like learning a little bit about God using an enigma machine (sorry, shitty simile).
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- quotemstr 1y agoI'm honestly confused about what the OP could be getting out of a drive by comment so obviously and verifiably wrong. Seems like a poor use for even cheap AI inference tokens. It doesn't even have trolling value. Is it so wrong of me to demand competence of my spammers?
- 15155 1y agoWhat's the purpose of annual flu vaccination programs if "viruses do not mutate!"?