> I write a little science fiction and I like to keep my ideas close
> enough to real science so that someone who actually knows about
the
> field (physics, biology, whatever) would have to think for a few
> moments to find any flaws.
Bravo!
> Idea for fighting retroviruses:
>> Manufacture a little retrovirus. ...
> Inject a person and these little viruses inject their code into
cells
> around the body, but only in cells actively infected by
retroviruses
> does the code become active. In those cells surface protein flags
are
> manufactured and the immune system easily finds the actively
infected
> cells.
intriguing, and could potentially work - IF RT works on extraneous
RNA, and not only on RNA it is co-injected with?
> Alternatively, the "safe" retrovirus has code that causes a cell
to
> lyse (do I have the word right... dissolve/explode?).
Above would only do what HIV/lytic retroviruses do, and make the
situation worse - what do others think?
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