http://www.jeremystangroom.com/viruses-and-their-threats-an-interview-with-professor-dorothy-crawford/237/ The web site of Jeremy Stangroom. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.jeremystangroom.com/viruses-and-their-threats-an-interview-with-professor-dorothy-crawford/237/#comment-371 Ralph Wed, 27 May 2009 17:00:53 +0000 http://www.jeremystangroom.com/?p=237#comment-371 Just a few thoughts: I read a few years ago that very little is being done in producing new antibiotics by pharmaceutical companies. Not lucrative enough. Recently I thought a what-if- question: What if all viruses could be iradicated, what would be the down side? There are many places where bacteria play a positive role, humanwise, but I'm not aware that a like statement can be made about viruses, but perhaps we're just not aware of all the ramifications. I did read where some wasp infected with a virus had a greater advantage than those uninfected in their reproductive process. Of course, as Dr. Crawford hinted, perhaps viruses are controlling other things we happily don't know about. But the one thing that to me stands out about viruses is that replicating is all they do. What drives them? Are they driven, at all? Just a few thoughts:
I read a few years ago that very little is being done in producing new antibiotics by pharmaceutical companies. Not lucrative enough.
Recently I thought a what-if- question: What if all viruses could be iradicated, what would be the down side? There are many places where bacteria play a positive role, humanwise, but I’m not aware that a like statement can be made about viruses, but perhaps we’re just not aware of all the ramifications. I did read where some wasp infected with a virus had a greater advantage than those uninfected in their reproductive process. Of course, as Dr. Crawford hinted, perhaps viruses are controlling other things we happily don’t know about.
But the one thing that to me stands out about viruses is that replicating is all they do. What drives them? Are they driven, at all?

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