Re: NANOBACTERIA and bad science

From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 12:37:07 MDT


In a message dated 5/9/02 1:45:04, bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:

>Its not like this is a "recent" discovery. The principles
>for the isolation of DNA/RNA have been known for decades.
>If nanobacteria do not have published data for the conserved
>sequences (such as the 35S RNA) then they are either such
>a radically different branch of life that existing molecular
>biology methods are useless or the scientists working in these
>areas are relatively incompetent.

Well, a ribosome couldn't possibly fit into a 20 nM organism,
so these things couldn't carry the conserved rRNA sequences.
If they're anything other than artifacts, they're some kind
of filamentous virus.



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