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GM Yeast Produces Human Protein
Makarand writes "A team of US scientists has been able to
genetically modify yeast to produce
fully human protein. Human protein chains have specific groups of sugars attached which determine how these proteins will fold and function. The process of attaching these sugars
to the protein, called glycoslylation, which has always evaded researchers can now be been carried out in the labaratory using genetically modified yeast. The team removed the yeast's genes that
added sugars to the protein in a 'non-human' way and added five new genes to
the yeast to add the sugars required by the human protein to fold and function."
"That could be your little brother in the bottom of the glass."
Cheesey.
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You can find more info on Tillman Grengross, the only scientist mentioned in the article, at his faculty homepage at Dartmouth.
Is it kosher?
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A lot of people seem to think that anything genetically engineered is automatically bad. Obviously we need to be careful when it comes to ecosystems, etc., but the DNA-huggers don't see many of the wonderful things that can come through genetic engineering. The advance described in this article is really amazing.
Any treatments that involve human proteins will be benefited by this technique, including antibodies and hormones, as mentioned in the article.
Science can't solve all problems, but it's always exciting to see advances like this which will make a big difference in real people's lives.
have a few cookies and several mugs of coffee. No genes needed here.
And, no, don't drink the coffee black.
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So the boss suprised them during their 10:00 am kegger and they had to think real fast.
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I, for one, welcome our new genetically-modified-yeast overlords.
I for one welcome our new yeast-grown superhuman overlords.
Well, it will largely depend on what those GM yeasts "eat" and how many usefull/useless/harmless/harmfull "byproducts" these GM yeasts make... :)
Think about it: a small "bulge" of half a pound yeast culture, eat it once (warning: various antibiotics will kill them, so you'll have to make a "refill")... then eat all sorts of cheap stuff (raw cereals, treebarks, grass or even paper) and never be hungry again: the GM yeast cultures in your digestive tract will take those "useless" (for normal humans) balasts and turn them into a nutritious meal...
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Yummy!
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This yeast is made of people! Peeeeoooppplleee!
(Pardon the Soylent Green reference).
That's good Billy!
Sheesh, why can't those people just focus on making reliable cars?
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Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
I never knew that GM had a yeast division. Well, I'll tell you one thing: I want the Cadillac yeast, not any of that cheap Chevy yeast.
...welcome our new yeast overlords!
It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is extremely sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: *BSD is dying
....what I want to know is what kind of starter does it make?
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