Saturday, July 14, 2012

Scientists Resurrect 500-Million-Year-Old Gene

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Scientists Resurrect 500-Million-Year-Old Gene Inside Modern Organism
Then, what the hell, they sprayed some hippies with it
“ Res Ipsa Loquitor
An anonymous reader writes with news that researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taken a gene from 500-million-year-old bacteria and inserted it into modern E. coli bacteria. They then allowed the bacteria to evolve over the course of a thousand generations to see whether it would resemble its original 'evolutionary trajectory.' From the  article:
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When you get down to it, irresponsible play-babies scientists, working off gummint grants, will be the death of us.
7/14/2012 09:00:00 AM 4 Comments

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Anonymous said...

Watch a show on how 'scientists' genetically modify plants. They use the equivalent of a spud gun to shoot some plant DNA into another plant. Then watch to see what happens.
They have no fricken idea of what will come out. There is no science except making the resultant plants stay alive, harvesting their DNA and planting. The results of which are allowed out into the world.
A few years ago {brain fade} seed giant tried to grow crops without letting the de-tasseled corn leak its DNA to the world. Didn't work. Crops for miles in every direction were 'corrupted'? with the spud gun results.
They are not shooting blanks, so to speak, and should be constrained from letting stuff loose willy-nilly.
tomw

7/14/12, 10:44 AM
Anonymous said...

Yes tomw. And then the afore mentioned Monsanto sued all the local farmers for using their patented genetic RoundUp proof corn without paying for it.

Ignore Amos

7/14/12, 11:33 AM
Kristophr said...

You don't learn about how the world works unless you experiment, Rodge.

If it wasn't for "play babies", we would still be living in the paleolithic.

At least these folks kept their experiments in a class 4 lab.

As for Monsanto ... dumbasses ... any corn downwind from their seed stock will be cross bred, and those farmed would have an excuse to counter-sue them, let alone be dunned for Monsanto's intellectual property.

7/14/12, 1:11 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

Monsanto and Roundup will one day be the subject of a Crimes Against Humanity trial.

7/14/12, 1:32 PM

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