www.infowars.com Scientists have hoped for decades that developments in genetic research could lead to biotech applications. Now, human-animal hybrids and transgenic clones are paving the way for organ harvesting and artificially-created human life. But what are the ethics behind this new technology? A biotech culture of 'pharming' has also emerged where cloned animals with inserted cross-species genes are used to produce everything from a GMO-version of human-like bovine milk, to pharmaceutical drugs, to spider-silk bred in goats and glow-in-the-dark puppies, kittens and mice made translucent by the application of jellyfish genes. Are there any safeguards or ethics in place to slow abuses of this emerging technology? And how long has science been developing cloning technology? Is it longer than we have been led to believe? The technology promises to aid infertile couples even as global fertility plummets. It gives hope for those in need of organ transplants. It gives the potential for efficient industrial production of synthesized drugs and enhanced food products. But is it safe? Who is watching? And have we unleashed Pandora's Box? Control over the Transgenic human-animal hybrid pose lucrative possibilities for new monopolies based on gene-patents for life, but it also threatens the integrity of the genetic code of life. GMO crops like soy have caused infertility and cancer in lab mice, much of which did not show expression until the second or third generation. If these ...
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Genetic pollution : the armageddon with no limits
To summarize, the current GM foods have a random DNA change of 2 to 4% and on top of that 5% of the genes are either accentuated or pushed down in effectiveness. The bottom line is that these mutations are totally random and have all kinds of "side effects" on animals, people and other plants. The plants could be toxic, cause allergies, cancers or contain nutritional changes. This is because the proteins produced by these plants don't match anymore with the proteins that we are used to receive for thousands of years. These mutations pass on to other plants. In big agro, this means that huge fields of organic plants get polluted and they create transgenic mutations. As a result everything normal get's polluted and creates "frankenstein" plants. The corporations who bring these seeds on the market know this. And thus the genetic pollution is in their advantage : it's now only a matter of time before they have the full monopoly of seeds since only pesticide sprayed patented GM seeds will grow the best after pollution happened. At the same time they are buying up all the major seed companies in the world. So genetic pollution is going to monopolize our food ... . Food will become a commodity for all of us! Sick Frankenstein food, that didn't belong in the biosphere in the first place! Go to naturalnews.com for a reality check ... . Take care.
Monday, April 15, 2013
GenGlide™ Nanoinjection System
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Production Of Therapeutic Glycoproteins : Competitor and Patent Landscape Report
About the Report: The majority of clinically approved protein drugs bear some form of post-translational modification, most commonly glycosylation. Glycosylation is the attachment of a carbohydrate group to a protein, catalyzed by enzymes called glycosyl transferases. It is either N-linked, in which a carbohydrate is attached to the side chain of a specific asparagine, or O-linked, in which it is attached to the hydroxyl oxygen of a serine or threonine, the former being most prominent. While N-linked glycosylation occurs largely in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of mammalian cells, O-linked glycosylation initiates in either the ER or Golgi apparatus. Glycosylation is important because it can influence the therapeutic efficacy, immunogenicity, solubility, and in-vivo half life of the glycoprotein. A major obstacle in the pharmaceutical application of glycoproteins is the inherent heterogeneity of their glycan structures. Mammalian cell culture systems, especially Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, are the preferred method for the production of therapeutic glycoproteins. Other systems such as E.coli, filamentous fungi, yeast, insects, plants and transgenic animals are also being engineered to produce proteins with optimal glycosylation pattern. Optimizing production methods to obtain a glycoform profile as similar to that in humans is the current goal in glycoengineering research. Some of the bestsellers among therapeutic proteins will soon lose patent protection. Therefore ...
SENS5 - Increased damage to proteins in ageing
© SENS Foundation 2011 - www.sens.org The Fifth SENS conference - Paul Thornalley Increased damage to proteins in ageing -- wear and tear potentially avoidable by extending preventive maintenance of life's essential machinery Authors PJ Thornalley, N. Rabbani University of Warwick Proteins undergo continual spontaneous modifications in physiological systems leading to change in their structure and function. This increases with age. Proteins are modified by glycation, oxidation and nitration leading to formation of glycation, oxidation and nitration adducts residues in proteins -- including formation of non-disulfide crosslinks. Damaged proteins undergo proteolysis to form glycated, oxidised and nitrated amino acids or free adducts that are then metabolised or excreted. Protein damage adduct residues and free adducts may be robustly quantified by stable isotopic dilution analysis tandem mass spectrometry. Data of protein damage is now being combined to produce refined dynamic, multi-compartmental mathematical models of in-life protein damage. Accumulation of protein damage in ageing, that is, increased steady-state levels of damaged proteins occurs as a consequence of: (i) increased rates of protein damage -- linked to increased rate of damaging agent formation and decreased anti-glycation and oxidant defences, (ii) decreased rates of repair of damaged proteins, and (iii) decreased rates of proteolysis of damaged proteins. Oxidative and non-oxidative mechanisms are ...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Genetically Modified Cotton?!
Let me tell you about Bt Cotton. It's genetically modified, it's in a third of our stuff, and it's pretty awesome all around.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Transgenic Organisms
The purpose of this video is to use a friendly and simple communication mode for effective comprehension of transgenic animals. Through easy examples and comparisons we are trying to explain the impact of transgenic organisms nowadays and why are they essential for human society; also, we discuss some actual research topics in this field. There are many projects where the goal is to explain in a deep and technical language research projects about transgenic organisms. In contrast, we focused in the social impact of them, in order to help anyone and everyone evaluate the implications of transgenic animal research for themselves.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
What Do Fish Thoughts Look Like? (1)
A double-transgenic larva was embedded in agarose, and a spot was presented on an LCD display placed on the right-eye side. Ca2+ signals were detected on the left tectum upon appearance (ON) and disappearance (OFF) of the spot. The spot was shown for the first 3 s in this 6 s movie. The video is shown at 3x real time. Credit: Current Biology, Muto et al. With new technology, scientists in Japan have detected the thought that went through a baby zebrafish's brain when it spotted some delicious food. Read about it at ept.ms Follow us on Twitter: @EpochTimesSci & @EpochTimesSpace Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com
Human Cloning 2012 No Need For Humans
*PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION* Japanese Stem Cell Discovery could lead to Human Cloning without the need for Humans - A study by Japanese researchers involving the use of stem cells to create eggs and sperm, and fertilized eggs as a result, has been announced. The scientific effort to achieve this result has been afoot for many a year, and the Japanese researchers efforts have been attained in mice for the time being. The next step would be to try to attain these results in humans. "Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," a quote from George Santayana comes to mind. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's were trying to create the master race of human beings during the 1930′s and 40′s, and if he had this technology then, well we all might be goose-stepping right now. It would appear that the only thing needed for cloning of humans without the aid of a female host would be a synthetic womb, a place for the DNA modified, stem cell created egg and sperm, fertilized in a Petri dish, to be implanted. Hard to believe, but true. guardianlv.com *** What Is Human Cloning - How To Clone - Is Cloning Ethical? Many useful human cloning resources, articles, videos - and comments by other students - about the future of human cloning, what is cloning, how to clone, cloning animals, cloning humans, cloning organs, therapeutic cloning. Is cloning ethical? Scientists are able to make clones from a wide range of adult animals - and have done so in humans, with embryos which have ...
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Eppendorf Cell Technology - Production of transgenic mice - pronuclear injection
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
WHAT IF... Animals were used as life support machines?... Life Support by Revital Cohen
Exhibit at the WHAT IF... exhibition in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 2009. Life Support, 2008 by Revital Cohen. Assistance animals - from guide dogs to psychiatric service cats - unlike computerised machines, can establish a natural symbiosis with the patients who rely on them. Could animals be transformed into medical devices? This project proposes using animals bred commercially for consumption or entertainment as companions and providers of external organ replacement. The use of transgenic farm animals, or retired working dogs, as life support devices' for renal and respiratory patients offers an alternative to inhumane medical therapies. Could a transgenic animal function as a whole mechanism and not simply supply the parts? Could humans become parasites and live off another organism's bodily functions?
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Motor neurons in fish
Motor neurons start life in the spinal cord. From the neurons long processes, called axons, develop and migrate out of the spinal cord into the surrounding tissue, where they connect with muscle cells to form neuromuscular synapses. In this video the motor neurons in a transgenic zebrafish embryo have been labelled with Green Fluorescent protein (GFP). This allows us to view the migration of the axons in live embryos and look at their behaviour in healthy animals and those that model. Find out more at www.fishforscience.com
Friday, February 15, 2013
Biotechnology
This video describes the processes of the polymerase chain reaction, transgenic organisms, and genomics. Please rate and comment. Follow me on: Twitter - @HerbstScience www.herbstscience.com
Genetic Armageddon: Humanity's Greatest Threat - InfoWars.COM
www.infowars.com A Secret That Can Destroy Us... Pandora's Box has surely been opened. A dangerous genetic experiment has come out of the shadows, and the human-animal hybrids, chimeras and other transgenic clones has produced now threaten to endanger and irrevocably alter life as we know it. The controllers of elite-funded science and R&D have wantonly tampered with the genetic code of the planet, ignoring the rather obvious dangers posed by cross-species experimentation and flagrantly jeopardizing the earth's delicately-balanced biodiversity. Fresh revelations about a "secret lab" program in the UK admittedly ongoing 'for the last three years' developing such bestial-hybrids only serves to reinforce our available data concerning the fact that genetically-modified laboratory creations are fast spinning out of control. Now the biotech industry has unleashed these Franken-breeds into the world under the auspices of monopolizing some of the most important and dangerous developments in Agra, Pharma and Medical research for the 21st Century. Their GM "solutions" to life's challenges promise lucrative returns, as we reported earlier today, due to their patented gene-expressions. Transgenic clones, created by deleting-and-replacing DNA sequences to create a cross-species hybrid (xenotransplantation) that is then grown in a host egg, are becoming a pet-project of corporate science that offers 'Pharming's' promise of replacement organs for ailing humans, industrial and ...
Terry Bradley: Transgenic Fish
A 10-year effort by University of Rhode Island scientist Terry Bradley to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders. This development could ultimately provide a boost to the aquaculture industry. For more information on Terry Bradley's transgenic fish: www.uri.edu
Integration and Excision of Plasmid
This Mcgrahill animation tells you how intergration of plasmid inside a bacteria occur and how transgenic bacteria is created
Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
Over the decades, scientists have learned a lot about the basic life processes shared by many animals — including people — by manipulating the DNA of the lower species, such as mice and worms. But to date, they have been unable to readily probe the genetic contribution to one higher cognitive capacity of particular interest — the ability to learn language from one another. Now scientists have worked out a method for altering the genes of the zebra finch, one of the handful of social animals that learn to speak in a way that is analogous to humans.