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Vaccines in your salad? Scientists growing medicine-filled plants to replace injections
.studyfinds.org/ ^ | September 16, 2021 | Chris Melore

Posted on 09/18/2021 9:43:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Researchers at the University of California-Riverside are working on a way to grow edible plants that carry the same medication as an mRNA vaccine.

Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers are now looking accomplish three goals. First, the team will try to successfully deliver DNA containing mRNA vaccines into plant cells, where they can replicate. Next, the study authors want to show that plants can actually produce enough mRNA to replace a traditional injection. Finally, the team will need to determine the right dosage people will need to eat to properly replace vaccinations.

Giraldo and a team of scientists from UC-San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University say the key to making edible vaccines are chloroplasts. These are small organs inside plant cells which help convert sunlight into energy.

Previous studies have shown that it’s possible for chloroplasts to express genes which are not a natural part of that plant. Giraldo’s team accomplished this by sending genetic material inside of a protective casing into plant cells.

In the new study, Giraldo teamed with UC-San Diego’s Professor Nicole Steinmetz to use nanotechnology to deliver more genetic material into chloroplasts.

(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mrna; plants
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1 posted on 09/18/2021 9:43:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

ping

“[T]he whole world... will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”


2 posted on 09/18/2021 9:44:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

GMO raised to the next level.


3 posted on 09/18/2021 9:46:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: BenLurkin

The world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.


4 posted on 09/18/2021 9:47:27 AM PDT by BipolarBob ("We the people" needs to be re-read, not reinterpreted.)
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To: BenLurkin

Old news, Satan already convinced Eve to give Adam an Apple for supper.


5 posted on 09/18/2021 9:47:29 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: BenLurkin

Be afraid, be very very afraid. Grow your own will be taking off even more.


6 posted on 09/18/2021 9:47:48 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

God help us.


7 posted on 09/18/2021 9:47:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps

There are no downsides to this.


8 posted on 09/18/2021 9:48:29 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

Frankly, I see nothing BUT downsides.


9 posted on 09/18/2021 9:49:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

How to modify your cells without you knowing it; to hell with informed consent.


10 posted on 09/18/2021 9:49:48 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

Once again I ask the question, “What could possibly go wrong?”


11 posted on 09/18/2021 9:50:55 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: BenLurkin

This is simply the ultimate plan by those who want depopulation. Use the foodstuffs which the masses eat to destroy them. [Is this the refinement of the smallpox-infected blankets that were given to the natives?]

Looks like I’ll have to start a garden and use older seeds which are not “genetically improved”.


12 posted on 09/18/2021 9:51:41 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ..
It's better than Jesse Jackson's spit.

13 posted on 09/18/2021 9:53:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

Problem.

First test subjects ate the new vax plants every day for a week. Then at night they grew ten foot branches and leaves and broke out of the lab to chase high school students parked in cars. Scary stuff.


14 posted on 09/18/2021 9:53:26 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: BenLurkin

There are already a lot of people smoking plants for medicine.

The people selling those plants come on here all the time and ask me important questions like,

“Oh yeah! Well, this one guy had a drink and SPILLED it. What about that?”

You got me there professor.


15 posted on 09/18/2021 9:56:16 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: BenLurkin

Talk about mad scientists.


16 posted on 09/18/2021 9:56:44 AM PDT by Old Yeller (We're a nation of surprisingly talented people run by the least talented of us.)
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To: Wuli
You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better get vaxxed
I'm telling you why
Biden is losing patience with YOU


He's making a list
He's checking it twice
If you're not vaxxed, he won't be nice
Biden is coming after you



17 posted on 09/18/2021 9:58:22 AM PDT by BipolarBob ("We the people" needs to be re-read, not reinterpreted.)
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To: BenLurkin

One of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen. No way to regulate dosages, etc. Much of it would be destroyed in digestion and that would be different depending on the person. Not to mention pointless.

Vaccine salad. Just flat out stupid.


18 posted on 09/18/2021 9:59:05 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Wuli

Someone with legal knowledge should join the tread. Isn’t it illegal to give someone a pharmaceutical agent without their knowledge? Clearly if you eat food you expect calories, vitamins and minerals, but not a drug?


19 posted on 09/18/2021 9:59:12 AM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: BenLurkin

The only practical use for this would be to medicate people against their consent, right?


20 posted on 09/18/2021 9:59:40 AM PDT by LambSlave
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