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RE: New Vaccine Potential: Living Viruses which are Unable to Replicate In Your Cells
Love biochemistry, wish I could do the math. I had to switch over to another field but I've been regretting it. I read about this earlier today but didn't get the depth that you put into it. Interesting stuff, non-reproducing viruses will probably be doing a lot of work in the years to come. I've been thinking adapting viruses is the best way to make nanomachines for all sorts of work.
Making viruses into nanomachines sounds like a really cool topic, I don't know of anyone who is trying to do that, but it sounds like someone should be!
Making them into bacteriophages is a great start. I read something about that a few weeks ago. And there's talk of carrying drugs to specific cell types.
I'm using it in my science fiction stories, because I expect it to be real in a very few years.
I will have to look more into it. If you come across anything related to it, could you shoot a link my way (if you don't mind, I would certainly appreciate it), the whole thing sounds very interesting to me!
I'm pretty sure I read about most of this kind of stuff in Mark Bruce's Blog (which has some CRISPR news this week) http://www.scitechdigest.net/2016/12/allen-crispr-cells-advanced-synbio.html
But this might be what I was remembering (the brain calcifies with age) http://news.mit.edu/2016/crispr-curing-disease-repairing-faulty-genes-0201