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From Antivirus to Antibiotics, McAfee Searches for a Last Cure

Seeded on Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:05 PM EDT
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health, san-pedro, allison-adonzio, john-mcafee
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It grows wild along the shores of the New River, among the Mayan ruins of Lamanai, next to the lilies that are home to little yellow birds that skip across the pads. Inside Belizean plants used for generations by native healers, a suite of chemicals produce a natural "anti-quorum sensing" effect that interrupts bacteria's ability to communicate. And bacteria that can't communicate don't go pathogenically virulent.

At least that's the hope. If they're are right, they've discovered the herbal equivalent of Neosporin.

That guy who puts wiredware antivirus on new computers wants to fix us.

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tyler

Trying to bring down the whole quorum concept to my level.

It takes a lot of energy to glow. It would be wasteful for a bacterium to glow alone, producing only a microscopic point of light. So Vibrio fischeri wait until there are lots of other Vibrio fischeri around before turning on their lights. And they know that there are lots of other Vibrio fischeri around by the amount of N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones (AHL) or autoinducers—little chemical postcards—present in their environment.

*scratches forehead with pencil*

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Reply#1 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:12 PM EDT
Tedd Riggs

yeah, right, sure, no problem........

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#1.1 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:42 PM EDT
Luke Wright

Good seed Tyler. File this one deep under, "Huh???"

Hey, sorry to hijack your thread Tyler,but I've been trying to e-mail you and it's not working. I can't e-mail anyone from my NV account and nobody can e-mail me or leave comments, which apparently they are aching to do. Do you think you could look into why my account has a block on it for comments and why I can't send or recieve e-mails under "contact this author"? Again, sorry for the hijack, but I don't know how elae to contact you since my stuff won't work. Thanks a lot Tyler! Luke

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#1.2 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:56 PM EDT
robynlewisTX.

Might be interesting if McAfee can come up with something equal or better than Neosporin, but I won't hold my breath.

Hate to go off topic too, but ditto what Luke says. I can't leave any comments on his homepage or send him emails or receive any from him. Mtherof3 says the same thing.

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#1.3 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:35 PM EDT
tyler

I can't e-mail anyone from my NV account

I can't leave any comments on his homepage or send him emails or receive any from him.

Sounds sitewide to me, I'll tell tech. Thanks. Sending in 'Report a Bug' using the Contact form looks like it works, you should do that.

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#1.4 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:51 PM EDT
Luke Wright

Sending in 'Report a Bug' using the Contact form looks like it works, you should do that.

Thanks Tyler, I'll do just that!

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#1.5 - Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:05 PM EDT
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