The deadly beauty of restriction and modification enzymes is that restriction enzymes are durable, whereas modification enzymes are short-lived. If E. coli loses the P1 virus, it quickly loses its shields and cannot make new ones.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
For human beings to sustainably inhabit Earth it is imperative to reexamine our approaches to healing and to medicine, as we are beginning to do with the rest of our technology. Just because medicine is intended to alleviate human suffering does not mean we are exempt from the environmental consequences of using it. Medicine needs to be reexamined
... See moreStephen Harrod Buhner • The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
