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For Safer Food, Just Add Viruses

by thaddeusmt on 11/24/13, 5:42 PM with 18 comments

  • by lifeformed on 11/24/13, 9:57 PM

    Viruses seem so weird to me. They're naturally emergent nanobots.
  • by manmal on 11/24/13, 8:30 PM

    Given that the human digestive tract (reportedly) contains more bacteria than the human body has cells, and they are vital to our survival, how can spraying bacteria-killers on food not be harmful?
  • by Amadou on 11/24/13, 9:32 PM

    Elanco, sells a liquid phage product called Finalyse that is sprayed on the hides of cattle before they’re slaughtered.

    I'm thinking that name is just a little too on the button.

  • by brianbreslin on 11/24/13, 8:22 PM

    This was fascinating. Could phages be engineered to attack mrsa and other superbugs we see in hospitals?
  • by neaanopri on 11/24/13, 8:41 PM

    This could be a replacement for antibiotics once they become completely ineffective