Viruses that infect other viruses could help cure viruses
Via Jeremy Tolbert and various other sources, the headline pretty much says it all. The discovery of virophages – a “newly discovered type of virus that spreads at the expense of other viruses” – offers a potential new alternative to antibiotics in fighting viral infections. [image by Nils Geylen]
August 11th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Antibiotics aren’t used to fight viral infections as they only act against bacteria.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Maybe just ’cause it’s Monday, I can’t seem to recall any work of sf predicting virus-eating viruses. You’d think it would have saved the Enterprise crew at least once.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
What about viruses killing cancer cells? …like in Will Smith’s movie, “I Am Legend”.