Wednesday, December 18, 2013

BRIEF UPDATES AND FURTHER READING




NEW AGE Genetic Engineering
No More Gene Guns


The floral dip method is used to create transgenic plants. Agrobacteria are able to insert certain DNA sequences on a plasmid into the plant chromosomes just by dipping parts of a plant into a solution of agrobacterium that carries the desired gene on their plasmid (called t-plasmid).  Not all seeds will become transgenic - they are discarded.

Here is a bit of information from the link above:

Step one.  Collect mature seeds.  After they are collected, place them into a micro-centrifuge tube for sterilization.  Next, put them into a Petri plate.  The site tells us the easiest way to sterilize the seeds is by soaking them in an ethanol solution.  I can’t help wonder if they use ethanol made from GE corn and if that would alter the sterilized seeds in mysterious ways.

So, you see, it is even easier to create GE seeds of every kind imaginable in a quick, easy and cost-effective process.  I am afraid they are here to stay as long as man is on this planet.  That is something to think seriously about, isn’t it?  Our bio-tech tampering has opened a Pandora’s box that may very well may destroy all life on earth. 

Oh, and by the way, experiments have been done that show that seeds of any kind are unable to grow near wi-fi routers Sure they are convenient but they have a downside.  There is a popular TV show that has a character named Mr. Gold a/k/a Rumpelstiltskin.  This Grimm creature warns everyone who deals with him that "All magic comes with a price, deary."   Sage advice, indeed.
 
The health ranger writes: “. . . radiation generated by wireless routers is negatively affecting our health. In fact, the British activist website Stop Smart Meters recently published a list of 34 scientific studies  demonstrating the adverse biological effects of Wi-Fi exposure, including studies linking it to headaches, reduced sperm count, oxidative stress and more.  Dear reader, please check out the article and all of the links to learn more.  We all need to be aware of the effects of wi-fi and other ungrounded energies on our health.

XNA

Cooking up Synthetic DNA in a Lab

This is old news but it is still new to me.  After researching Monsanto in depth, I didn't think anything could shock me.  I was wrong.  

Check out this article:  Rethinking Healthcare: XNA, a Synthetic DNA capable of Heredity and Evolution

Capable of Heredity and Evolution?!?!   Man's pride and ego knows no bounds.

The article reads, “Doctors already prescribe biological products such as enzymes and antibodies to treat certain diseases, but these drugs break down quickly in the stomach and the blood stream. Because XNAs are somewhat foreign, Popular Mechanics explains, they’re not broken down as quickly in the body, as it hasn’t evolved enzymes to digest them.”

So, are they telling us that XNA would remain a permanent part of our bodies if ingested?

We are being told that XNA molecules are quite similar to the genetic instructions for life found in every living thing on earth.  The strands of synthetic polymers can store, copy, and pass on genetic information the way DNA does. 

DNA and RNA consist of 4 nucleic acid bases – the chemical letters A, G, C, and T – that run along a backbone of phosphates and sugars. DNA uses deoxyribose sugars, while RNA uses ribose.

However, XNA replaces those natural God-given sugars with one of 6 alternatives, including hexitol, threose, and arabinose. The 6 resulting molecules are known as xeno-nucleic acids.  (”Xeno” is Greek for foreign”). More likealien” from a sci-fi chiller thriller in my opinion.  And oh, man is applauding the fact that XNA can evolve sort of like DNA does in nature.  Don’t you believe it for one minute.

For more articles about XNA, check out this link on National Geographic News.

Christine Dell'Amore.  National Geographic News
http://tinyurl.com/kue9gah