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Growing Insulin
McLuhanesque writes "The Globe and Mail reports that a Calgary biotech firm has developed a process to turn genetically modified safflower oil into human insulin in commercial quantities. The process reduces capital costs by 70% and product cost by 40%. 'SemBioSys says it can make more than one kilogram of human insulin per acre of safflower production. That amount could treat 2,500 diabetic patients for one year and, in turn, meet the world's total projected insulin demand in 2010 with less than 16,000 acres of safflower production.'"
on how many diabetics are *produced* from an acre of sugar cane or corn used to make corn syrup. Just so we can see if it all balances out.....
As a type II, non-insulin dependent (yet) diabetic, I for one welcome our new safflower overlords.
What was once true, is no longer so
...implant the insulin-producing gene into Cannabis sativa L., there would be a product. Can I have some ice cream?
The real problem with this stuff is people that have been given it track the sun all day.
Need Mercedes parts ?
How could you eat a relative ??
That's just sick !
Save the bananas !
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
That's not funny. I suffer from diabetic-phototropism, you insensitive clod!
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
It's in Leviticus: "A restriction enzyme that touches a plant chromosome shall not touch an animal chromosome, lest there be an abomination." You can't argue with a commandment like that. Why do you hate G-d?
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain