so, i’m minding my own business on the computer
with the tv humming along in the background, when a very familiar
voice starts coming out of the box. much to my surprise, it was a
bio professor, betty kutter, from my alma mater
the evergreen state college [ not “evergreen university” as cited on the segment ], talking about her work with bacteriophage on a
48 hours segment:
” “Nobody cared very much once penicillin came along in
the western world. They thought they had the problem licked for all
time. We have a lot of hubris a lot of time,” says Betty Kutter, a
microbiology professor from Evergreen University, who believes
passionately that phage therapy works.With Eliava, she hopes to convince others that using a
naturally-occurring virus to fight an infection is a fine idea.
“These are viruses that can absolutely not infect human cells, or
animal cells, or plant cells,” she says. “No chance of getting sick
from the treatment. The only kind of cells they infect is
bacteria.” “
much to her chagrin, i learned the finer points
of old school mouth pipetting while working with phage in betty’s
lab. hi. ho.