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Rabies Antibodies From Tobacco Plants
Makarand writes "The tobaccco plant has been
genetically engineered
to produce rabies antibodies. After the DNA coding for the human antibody against rabies was inserted into the plant, rabies antibodies were found in the plant extract.
These antibodies were effective in binding to and neutralising the rabies virus
in animal tests with no adverse or allergic reactions."
For once, tobacco is saving lives!
does it run linux?
Cigarettes aren't selling well? Just wait untill people get rabies! Then give them our vaccine, and they'll get addicted to it! It's the perfect plan.
He he he.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
Yeah, they could add vitamin THC into tobacco. That would sell rather well I would think.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Will we send the tobacco industries' finest to try to hook dogs and small animals on these cigarretes? Imagine - "Puff puff the Raccoon"?
This reminds me of an old college radio promo I remember hearing:
"Somewhere in our town tonight roams Zork, the rabid dawg. We'll give $1000 to whoever can grab... the RIGHT.... rabid...dawg!"
This is so obscure and old that it is not even found on Google.
Yeah, recently they also produced transgenetic tobbaco with firefly genes which glows in the dark when sprayed with a chemical called "luciferin".
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http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/US/L1/l12002/plantwat
We will have more of these nasty tobbaco hybrids soon - pack-hunting around, biting their victims and even infecting them with rabbies.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
>I'd rather get sick of whatever they're trying to cure.
We'll miss you - rabies is fatal.
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Tobbacco's so hard to work into a salad. Maybe they should make some anti-rabies Tomacco instead?
Does this mean tobacco chewers won't just spit, now they'll foam at the mouth, too?
I've been smoking for years and I've never once had rabies!
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."