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Anatomy of a Virus
Roland Piquepaille writes "No, I'm not talking about a computer virus here, but about a real one, the Epsilon 15, which attacks the bacterium Salmonella. By writing a few lines of computer code, biologists from Purdue University have found a way to control a high-resolution microscope. This allowed them to look inside a virus. While previous teams were able to visualize the highly symmetric outer shell of other viruses, these researchers were able to see the whole structure of Epsilon 15, including its tail, its genome and even its core. This better knowledge of viruses which attack bacteria could lead to great advances in medicine, especially when antibiotics become inefficient because of bacteria resisting them."
I've been having trouble mailing daddypants@slashdot.org - and this is not the first time where I've had this problem.
Have any other subscribers had similar problems? I just get a mailer daemon error from pudge@andover.net.
Weird.
In the future, china will trump all of corp america, they arent as savvy in the economic world
but they keep things simple, if theres a market for something, they can/will produce it, because
if its for the good of the state they will, kind of like a communist idealogy using captialist methods.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
So they don't look like teh little rocketship diagram we have grown used to all these years.
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Right when I read that, a slashdot ad for the "Power Squid" rendered right next to your comment:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/po
Table-ized A.I.