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> >So to treat a virus with it, you design a piece of RNA (easy to do) that
> will silence a particular gene in the virus and shut that virus down.


Pete, I agree with the rest of your post, but you didn't quite get the
mechanism of Remebee correct.  It is not RNA silencing--it is dsRNA, which
simply primes the bee's natural immune response against assembly of the
virus.  It does not knock out a virus gene.
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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