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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.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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