Along these lines, since the early 80s - when I first learned about the possibility of developing cell- or species-specific antibodies - I've imagined how cool it would be if antibodies specific to something like kudzu could be generated so that toxins with very short environmental half-lives could be attached to them as a means of plant pest (weed) control. I've always assumed that the reason this isn't done is because plants like kudzu - or dichotomous plants in general - have too many close cousins wherever they grow to forestall ecological disaster... otherwise, I guess, the cost of mass antibody production and antibody-toxin bonding could be proving prohibitive (or maybe, and I don't believe this for a minute, plant biologists aren't always very creative in their thinking.)
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:43 PM, michael perelman < michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice if you can be sure that they only affect the bad stuff.
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> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:46 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Looks interesting
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> http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/04/Biotechnology-Breakthrough-polymer-nanoparticles-detect-and-destroy-MRSA-and-other-bacteria/
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> > joanna
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