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Sam Barris
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 Posted: Thu 02 Dec, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: Just wait until they develop plate! |
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I found this link while looking for new chainmail patterns to try. You'll have to scroll down to the bottom story to see it. Very thought provoking.
http://www.exn.ca/stories/2000/09/21/53.asp
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Alexi Goranov
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| Posted: Fri 03 Dec, 2004 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Just wait until they develop plate! |
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this is a T4 bacteriophage (bacterial virus) which is specific for the intestinal bacteria E.coli. It predates medieval knights by......say few million years, but it makes for a catchy title though 
for resistance against this phage, E.coli does not rely on cutting, chopping, or poking the virus, but rather develops mutations (changes) which prevent the phage from binding to the bacteria and injecting its DNA into it.
the structure of the phage's head is highly symmetrical and organized (picture attached). It protects/stores the phage's DNA while waiting got the next bacterium to come by. You can see how the "rings" interact with each other, hence the analogy to mail.
enough biology for today.
alexi
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