Yes as far as i know viruses do evolve and become stronger/different etc. That is the reason we keep getting colds, it is a different cold all the time. However the way this drug works, is by blocking a general mechanism, one that the virus is going to have to do considerable evolving to get around. Not that this capacity is beyond viruses - they can do many wierd and wonderful things. So this drug may indeed help in that regard, however like all biological systems, viruses will eveltually find a way to get around it. Although there is a sense you can create a drug so devastating that evolution is not possible. Probably unlikely tho. In related news, scientists have found that a virus may well be the cause of the motor-neuron disease that Stephen Hawking and a friend of mine have! link is here exe
This is interesting coming from a country that still executes children for breaking the law. I think the USA one of the only countries in the world to still execute children for crime. How can it be that children are treated as second class citizens in every other respect but are still exucuted or given life in prison for crime? They can't be responsible for anything else... so why are they responsible for murder?
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Yes as far as i know viruses do evolve and become stronger/different etc. That is the reason we keep getting colds, it is a different cold all the time. However the way this drug works, is by blocking a general mechanism, one that the virus is going to have to do considerable evolving to get around. Not that this capacity is beyond viruses - they can do many wierd and wonderful things. So this drug may indeed help in that regard, however like all biological systems, viruses will eveltually find a way to get around it. Although there is a sense you can create a drug so devastating that evolution is not possible. Probably unlikely tho. In related news, scientists have found that a virus may well be the cause of the motor-neuron disease that Stephen Hawking and a friend of mine have! link is here exe
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This is interesting coming from a country that still executes children for breaking the law. I think the USA one of the only countries in the world to still execute children for crime. How can it be that children are treated as second class citizens in every other respect but are still exucuted or given life in prison for crime? They can't be responsible for anything else... so why are they responsible for murder?