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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (326479)12/7/2002 1:36:02 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I actually said the following:

"[The researcher DMA mentioned] likely didn't think [the virus he created] was life because viruses don't really self-replicate. They simply take over the self-replicating "machinery" of truly living organisms to reproduce."

Now using the link provided here by DMA I subsequently found an article saying essentially the same thing I have told you:

"Most researchers would not regard a virus as being "alive", as it depends on the machinery of a living, host cell to replicate."

(SEE 17th paragraph of this article)
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