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.