<![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @FrankenPC: If it weren't for science gone wrong, we wouldn't have science fiction. You're right - we have to hurry. Get the ice nine.

Corwin

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @Corwin:

Well said. In any other venue I would be lauding this discovery. But, this is io9. So, BRING ON THE ZOMBIE BEASTS FROM HELL!!!!

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @FrankenPC: The basics of what you're saying is true, that there is a possibility of failure in any endeavor. However you're jumping to conlcusions when you describe the failure you warn of. Should failure in the process occur, it would most likely not result in some highly predatory new virus, merely a virus that failed to do the constructive task it was assigned.
Speaking of science with absolute certainty is indeed ill-advised... but speaking against science with the threat of an infintisimally unlikely (not to mention creative) outcome is somewhat foolish. Particularly when the new technique shows promise like this.

Corwin

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> Patton Oswalt comes to mind: "We made cancer airborne and contagious. You're welcome! We're science!"

Bellatrixie

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @screaming numbers:

The best intentions of mice and men. Anyone who speaks of science with absolute confidence is living in fantasy land. Failures ALWAYS occur within the domain of any given scientific breakthrough. Trying to be like NASA and attempting to see all failure modes before they happen is impossible.

Appolo 13.

Hell, failures have given us some of the best SciFi material we have ever read!

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> Uh, this was how the rage virus was created in 28 Days Later, if memory serves.

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @screaming numbers: This all sounds great until we all turn into badly-rendered greyish proto-zombie/vampires

Supernintendo

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> My wife has the Rabies Vaccine for school, so I wonder if she'd reject the treatment...

Conrad

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> ...5...4...3...2...1...

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @screaming numbers: Exactly. Thank you.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> @FrankenPC: These viruses have no ability whatsoever to cause a disease state. Their normal genetic material is replaced with RNA that is designed solely to interfere with the processes that allow normal cells to escape the constraints of the cell cycle and develop into tumors. And what's really exciting is that the use of viruses allows for a treatment that is exclusively targeted to tumor cells, whereas conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation inevitably damage normal cells in surrounding tissue.

screaming numbers

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> Why does this concept chill me to the bone? Scientists work with the law of averages. If somthing works 99.999% of the time, then it must be true. When dealing with trillions of miniature viral drug dispensers, that .001 margin of error becomes a rather large number if evil Virii.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> Error: Norton Anti-Brain Virus 2011 failed to run.

VAST

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> D20 Virus FTW!

JoshJasper

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> You have to pick all those furry Cheerios off it first...

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> For some strange reason I feel an urge to play katamari.

ThatGuyOverThere

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> I'm sorry, but that thing looks like my grandma knit it on a slow Sunday morning.

StrangestCreature

]]> <![CDATA[Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain]]> It's like "Rant" only with less incest fueled time travel and more actual science.

Ladyboots

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