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Biologists Program E. Coli To Patrol For Pathogens

Posted by Soulskill on from the working-on-method-to-send-it-back-in-time-to-kill-john-connor dept.

MTorrice writes "When hospital patients develop nasty, antibiotic-resistant infections, the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is often the culprit. In a new approach to killing the pathogen, researchers genetically modified harmless Escherichia coli bacteria to detect and destroy P. aeruginosa. The E. coli spot a specific chemical released by the pathogen and then secrete a toxin to kill it (abstract)."

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  1. Re:What could by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What could go wrong? You're worried about the wrong thing, my co-cowardly friend! Just think if somebody did invented machines capable of doing thousands, millions, or even billions of calculations a second. Then connect vast numbers of them together in some sort of network where information could be sent and received. We'd be one coding mistake, just one little "0" replaced with a "1" and BAM! Sentient calculating machines hell bent on destroying humanity.