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He had been studying the effect of a potato ‘fitted’ with a lectin from a snowdrop. He had introduced the lectin Purchase gene into the potato using a ‘promoter’ based on a cauliflower mosaic virus and then fed the potato to rats to see whether there were any harmful effects.
In August Dr Pusztai told a World In Action television team that the genetically modified potato damaged rat organs and Purchase depressed their immune systems.
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Last week, battle erupted again. Twenty-one scientists from 12 nations declared that they had looked at Dr Pusztai’s original results, found that there was indeed cause for concern and like it Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Sale Uk demanded Dr Pusztai’s rehabilitation. And an Aberdeen pathologist, Stanley Ewen, independently repeated Dr Pusztai’s research and found that lectins from genetically modified potatoes did in fact leave their signature in the stomachs of rats. Researchers began arguing that the cauliflower mosaic virus might act as a fuse, triggering unexpected dangers in the host food.
A GENE is a unit Purchase of information: a code for a characteristic, written as a length of DNA A LECTIN GENE is a set of instructions to a plant to make a poison. Some plant poisons are very toxic, and some are harmful only to one group of predators. THE SNOWDROP LECTIN was thought to be toxic to aphids, but not to mammals. A lectin added to a potato would in theory add to its insect resistance, reduce the need for pesticides and increase yield.
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Even so, five years ago researchers began arguing that an apparently innocent promoter and an apparently beneficial gene could between them become a hazardous combination – either in spreading resistance from crops to weeds, or in triggering unexpected effects in the crop to which they were Buy transferred.