[adorno]

Nobody supposes it alters the DNA of a bacteria; but if you have any evidence of it, I am all ears!

You, yourself, admitted that the human defense mechanism is amazing, yet, you're willing to accept that a bacteria possesses a power more amazing than that of the human body, and it's defense mechanisms and it's DNA? Researchers are still discovering many new things about the human defense mechanisms, so, why is the study about the Gonorrhea bacteria just a one-sided or one way street? If we were to be the "weaklings" that the article suggests, with the superior abilities of the Gonorrhea bacterium, we wouldn't stand a chance against any bacteria or virus.

[allmendream]

Just because the DNA transfer is, traditionally, one way doesn't make us weaker without superior abilities to a bacteria.

Getting inside a cell and changing DNA is what a virus is good at. Our immune system doesn't produce viral structures.

Attaching antibodies (those 3-D shapes) to pathogens and using pyrogens and killer cells - THAT the immune system does.

Introducing DNA changes to the pathogens that prey upon you is an ineffective method, because you cannot ‘get’ them all at once, and the more detrimental the disadvantage, the more those unaffected will dominate subsequent generations.

So even if the immune system...

a) created viral like particles that could enter the bacterial cell and introduce new DNA.

b) the new DNA was to the disadvantage of the bacteria.

Then.....

c) the bacteria with the disadvantage would be out-competed by those without it.