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[–] A_A@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Brilliant. As antibiotics becomes useless, those bacteriophages will be next major medical tools.

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[–] joseki@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep the only reason modern medicine went the antibiotic route instead of the bacteriophage route was the logistical and clinical challenges in stocking 100 treatments for an infection instead of 1 (or thousands instead of dozens) but now that we can print them on demand, you just have to show the AI an infectious agent or tumor cell and it can just crank out a custom virus that kills it specifically. Won't help with infectious prions or viruses but opens the door to new treatments for those too

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

now that we can print them on demand, you just have to show the AI an infectious agent or tumor cell and it can just crank out a custom virus that kills it specifically.

That's some Star Trek level bullshit.

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