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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (1)	5/3/2000 12:45:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 1336

An entirely new paradigm for fighting infectious disease is emerging. It is based on a foundation of increasing sophistication in infectious disease medicine and of the unraveling of the genetic code of disease-causing microorganisms. faculty.washington.edu

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (1)	6/11/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 1336

Unnatural amino acids in bacteria, see June 3rd Science News, April 29 PNAS, May 24 JACS, Dec 29, 1999 JACS. Not merely altering a gene, but changing the code itself.

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (1)	8/17/2000 5:35:43 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1336

Microbial genome sequencing Nature 406, 799 - 803 (Insight) nature.com ...phenotypic variation ...evolution of antigenic proteins probably occurs in real time The ability of human pathogens to alter their antigenic potential and thereby evade the immune system has the potential to hinder vaccine development by conventional methods. _____________________________________________________ Lurkers, the baby page is updated home.att.net This latest roll of film had many overexposed shots, mistakenly loaded ASA400--and I usually just use a flash, so that doesn't work too well. But I love the photo of Grandma reading to Miriel. You would think an autofocus lens could have pulled in that last shot?! Now where did I put that manual;-)