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Dylan16807 on July 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet

Pathogens are not fought by attacking their DNA. It's not going to make any difference, except that it's harder to breed it with anything else.

viraptor on July 11, 2015 [–]

Isn't this exactly how bacteria fights viruses? That is - by cutting known dna patterns using restriction enzymes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_enzyme

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