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ITT: We suggest theories or thesis that we think are original, or application of any scientific principles to a new and innovative way

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>hardmode= Mathematics

I'll start:
I think with the progression and understanding we have of molecular genetics and gene therapy, we can study prevalent viral or biological pathogens and make an insertion into their DNA for cell death

>> No.5530869
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5530869

>>5530857
What we the ancients thought were "gods" were actually flesh and blood extraterrestrials

>> No.5530987

>>5530857
>can study prevalent viral or biological pathogens and make an insertion into their DNA for cell death

Don't T-Cells already do this?

Anyways, I have no ideas up my sleeve right now

>> No.5530993

With my sparse understanding of biochemistry, why can't we administer antibodies as common drugs instead of antibiotics?

>> No.5531006

>>5530993
With my sparse understanding of biochemistry: b/c antibodies merely enable the patient's immune system to identifies the pathogen (but something more is needed to act against the pathogen).

(I could be wrong...)

>> No.5531011

>>5531006
to identify*
fixed

>> No.5531028

>>5530993
d'oh, i just thought about it. because producing antibodies for the human requires a human substrate, whereas common antibodies are made with rabbits infected with cancer.

also vaccines do pretty much the same thing, cheaper, and more reliable than any method

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5531031

>>5530987
>T-Cells
>Resident Evil
>zombies
>>>/x/

>> No.5531047

>>5531031
The closest disease that could lead to a zombie apocalypse is Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Brain eating, non-curable. Prions essentially. You have to think the slow moving zombie, not the rabid ones.

Thankfully it's no a virus or bacteria or an organic so there's no evolutionary selection - pressure or whatever. I suppose some evil corporation like Umbrella could find the gene that commonly misfolds proteins, add that to the common cold or influenza genome, and then select the strain in which the prion forming gene is expressed.

captcha: demoniac rehmen

>> No.5531128

Bump

>> No.5531138

>>5531047
by grandfather had that. zombie asnt the first thing you think of when you see one, more like mental retardation.