By no means am I educated in medicine, but with all of the research being done in genetics, it led me to a question.
Given the emergence of superbugs on a more widespread basis, what's stopping medicine from attacking these germs on genetic basis? Perhaps inject a virus in the patient that would only alter the bacteria's DNA so that it ceases to reproduce?
Why, or why not could this be plausible?
2007-12-16 08:38:03 · 1 answers · asked by Steve R 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
That is absolutely plausible, and is an existing area of research. There are efforts underway to engineer both viruses and bacteria to deliver drugs to patients in a targeted fashion. The risk, of course, is that the virus would affect human cells as well, either through a flaw in design or through a mutation.
2007-12-16 08:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋