Sunday, August 17, 2008

Evil Tendencies Cancel


Will the blight end the chestnut?
The farmers rather guess not.
It keeps smouldering at the roots
And sending up new shoots
Till another parasite
Shall come and end the blight.

Robert Frost - 1936

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This might seem strangely depressing at first, but I like to think of it as the notion of the viruses they are working on to kill certain types of cancer.  The parallel can be made to a survivor in Castanea dentata, continuously sending up shoots.  Finally a harmless parasite kills the deadly parasite... and our American Chestnut tree survives.  At least that's how I like to think about it.  

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