i had heard of Virus use in drug delivery and bioengineering.
But to make you live longer?
Drawing a Long Bow?
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Some viruses are being used in the fight against cancer. For example, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are targeting brain tumours using a variant of the Newcastle disease virus, which usually afflicts birds. Likewise, genetic engineers use harmless viruses to carry desirable genes into cells. For example, scientists have tried treating familial hypercholesterolaemia, a genetic disease, by infecting liver cells with a virus. The virus inserts a crucial gene that makes the liver cells produce a chemical sponge that controls harmful cholesterol.
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I wonder what role they play in Natural Selection if they can ferry around genetic material????
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the age of a species can be deduced by its virulence
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