Virus hunter

[cjsmith]

Virus strain targets cancer cells in very early trials

Comments

[noelfigart]

Have you ever read anything by Mira Grant?

[amaebi]

The communication systems of the human body are astonishing.

[cjsmith]

*low chuckle* Yes. :)

[cjsmith]

Aren't they? Physiology is just WACK.

[hitchhiker]

here's hoping!

[cjsmith]

Yes! (Secretly, I suspect our next big antibiotic breakthrough will be virus-based, as well. Bacteriophages are terrifyingly good at what they do.)

[amaebi]

Over and over again, with regard to so many disciplines, I think of histories in which systemic analyses are initially decried as sissy stuff as compared with the Manly Heroics of focus on one element of a system.

[cjsmith]

Also, studies of things that are complex enough we won't immediately reduce them to black-and-white one-zero logic are clearly inferior to studies of things we can fully understand fast. Biology, sociology, psychology, vs math/computers.

[amaebi]

...and there is no distinction between the phenomena we study, and the analytical machinery we bring to studying it, when it's Good Science. So analytical methods couldn't possibly influence conclusions!

[cjsmith]

Of course not! Nor can computer-aided methods be biased, when they've been written by tons of biased people. Computers can't be biased!