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Not sure. The behavior you posit sounds like a virus, but the regular cells would lack the machinery to translate the artificial genes. Defenses against bacteri

by gmarx 11y ago

Not sure. The behavior you posit sounds like a virus, but the regular cells would lack the machinery to translate the artificial genes. Defenses against bacteria are mostly directed against surface proteins and these proposed organisms would have regular proteins

Karunamon 11y ago
Or a prion - not really a virus, but an agent that causes the body to misbehave, almost by accident.
- hliyan 11y ago
  A misfolded protein? That sounds more likely with this type of DNA, doesn't it?
  - gmarx 11y ago
    Considering how rare prions are I don't consider it likely that an escaped artificial DNA organism would accidentally produce one