Fwd: Re: [Biofuel] Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?

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Kirk

Chip Mefford <cpm@...> wrote:

> Original very long and difficult to 'digest' post snipped.

This stuff about Agrobacterium is just about the most disturbing

stuff I've ever read in my life. And I've read some disturbing

things.

>From the abstract:

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/4/1871.abstract

(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Genetic transformation of HeLa cells by Agrobacterium

" Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a soil phytopathogen that elicits

neoplastic growths on the host plant species. In nature, however,

Agrobacterium also may encounter organisms belonging to other kingdoms

such as insects and animals that feed on the infected plants. Can

Agrobacterium, then, also infect animal cells? Here, we report that

Agrobacterium attaches to and genetically transforms several types of

human cells. In stably transformed HeLa cells, the integration event

occurred at the right border of the tumor-inducing plasmid's

transferred-DNA (T-DNA), suggesting bona fide T-DNA transfer and lending

support to the notion that Agrobacterium transforms human cells by a

mechanism similar to that which it uses for transformation of plants

cells. Collectively, our results suggest that Agrobacterium can

transport its T-DNA to human cells and integrate it into their genome. "

So, all that messing about with gmo crops in pursuit of dogged

dedication to 'owning' the worlds food supply, they have engineered

a bacterium that can move plant and animal dna back and forth.

This is just brilliant.

At what point do folks realize what an incredibly and i mean

INCREDIBLY bad idea this is?

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Chip Mefford

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