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Topic Started: Jul 23 2008, 03:33 AM (4,786 Views)
Nero
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The Canadian
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Apr 20 2009, 09:51 PM
Viruses have feelings too!
All they do is inject RNA and use a cell's materials for recreation.

Kinda like the US. =P
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However virusy the United States is, it also has feelings- feelings of malice, evil, and contentment.

Similarly, viruses also have these emotions.
"Give me back my face!" "Look at that sunset. Like blood and melted cheese."
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I know they weren't cells, but I couldn't think of anything off the top of my head to call them.
I tried units, thought it was stupid.
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They're complicated proteins. (Technically they're a protein coat containing RNA or DNA molecules..)
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Ask the microbiologist! What do you want to know about viruses?
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
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Um...

Are viruses capable of eating humans?
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Apr 21 2009, 11:31 PM
Um...

Are viruses capable of eating humans?
Eating humans? Viruses are much smaller than bacteria & are non-living when present outside our body. But when within our body, they enter our cells & use the cell constituents to give rise to multiple copies. Then they burst out of the cells & infect other cells. Infected cells usually die. Hope it answers your question. Viruses can't literally eat us.
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.
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Can you genetically modify viruses such that they are capable of eating humans?
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Ok, you're using the wrong term.
In a sense, yes. Flesh-eating viruses exist, and do, in a way, eat us.
Dissolve? Fail.
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Apr 22 2009, 06:42 PM
Can you genetically modify viruses such that they are capable of eating humans?
When scientists modify viruses, they do it with the aim of helping humans-not harming them. So I doubt flesh-eating viruses would rank high in their list (flesh eating viruses could be useful too-who knows?). Also, though in theory, preparing genetically modifying micro-organisms sounds simple-in practice it's pretty difficult & inaccurate (believe me, I've tried). And you can't just go introduce a GMO into a human body.
Again, flesh-eating viruses could exist ( I could google-but I'm feeling lazy now) but I have not heard of any (not surprising seeing that I've only done my first year in microbiology).
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.
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Googled it. Bacteria that eat flesh exist, rare are the carnivoric viruses.
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Yeah, I was right.
I looked at dad and asked "Are there any flesh eating viruses? I know about Bacteria, but viruses?"
I just went with it.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Your dad a biologist or something?
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.
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No, but, like me, generally knowledgable.
'sides, he shrugged.
Ultimate Alliance was distracting him.
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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Apr 24 2009, 07:06 PM
No, but, like me, generally knowledgable.
*Dies laughing*
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