CurtAdams@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 5/31/99 9:12:17, asa@nada.kth.se wrote:
>
> >Yes, but bio-inspired nanodevices would be right at home. It is wet,
> >sloppy and random, but has a good infrastructure. The only problem
> >might be that protein-based nanodevices could produce a HLA signal to
> >the immune system.
>
> An intracellular nanodevice would be partly protected from this.
> Intracellular parasites other than viruses produce weak immune responses as
> their foreign protein mostly remain inside themselves and are less likely to
> make it to the surface of the cell. Hence, partly, the stubborness of
> malaria, leprosy, and tuberculosis.
> You could put some of the nanodevices into the immune clonal deletor cells to
> induce tolerace, although I don't know how long that would take.
Might be good for children born with internal nano, at least.
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