Bacteriophage

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Life isn't really a thing, it's just a label for certain systems. My working definition is that life is a system which uses energy transformation (sunlight, thermal vent) to maintain a low level of atomistic disorder, so Viruses would be alive while in the cell, and latent outside under that definition. But, semantics aside, I think the key idea is to stop the genes staying constant; whatever mutations happen to kill the resistant-strain in that proposed experiment is a good mutation.

So long as you stop them mutating in the body (the way to do that is use a lot of phage, with a low mutation rate, and induce mutation in vitro with UV (more phage makes a good mutation more likely), and then extract in the proposed way. Of course, this is all semi-hypothetical, but itsounds good to me.



That's likely.

About Russia: During the planned economy phase shortages of medicine were sometimes common. Though their life [Soviet citizens] expectancy got quite high at some point, it later dropped as most of the birth rate was happening in areas like the central Asian SSRs that had high IMR, as the Russian and other European SSRs became more Western with low birth rates

There is a type of organism I read about that uses radioactive decay (the heat, I imagine). I think it was found in some South African gold mines deep beneath the surface, so I suppose you would refer to it as an chasmolithic life form. I have read some alternative biochemistry theories that also have other options such as pure chemical reactions or even, strangely, inside of stars (obviously theoretical but pretty neat I suppose)

I was tempted to throw in "radiation" as well,but I didn't know there was an organism that actually used it(am I . Alternate Biochemistry is great, but solar life...I don't think so. The energy of the star is so high that that covalent bonds would be blown to shreds, so life couldn't maintain it's thermodynamic disequilibrium (maintainance of complexity basically). I don't even know if a hypothetical organism living on the sun could exploit solar energy, it seems a lot like trying to use a hot metal bar to heat a...hot metal bar

So much so that TB can actually prevent crimes because it runs rampant through the prisons.

South Africa and HIV were the same way.

HIV in prisons? Wonder how it spread. $50 it correlates to "time spent in showers".

I do not remember a single time that a prison was not associated with anal sex. Soap-on-a-rope in very good to have in the situation.