Re: BIOTECH: Genes and Flesh Eating Bacteria

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 22:57:34 MST


On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:48PM -0800, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> It turns out that ones genetic makeup may play a key role
> in susceptibility to flesh eating bacteria.

A nice result - those HLA types are important for a lot of
things. Getting the "right" type might be a good way to health
and the ladies (of complementary HLA type). I wonder if one
could use this binding mechanism to deal with the streps.

> It is distinctly possible that these folks work across the
> street from Anders (its a small world after all...).

The Karolinska is nearby, although this research team are at a
hospital in southern Stockholm. The world might not be small,
but Stockholm is.

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