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June 26, 2007

Baculovirus is a circular DNA duplex, it replicates in the insect cell nucleus and replication is prone to the generation of defective genomes by deletion (Wu et al 1999). The mode of virus replication seems to make the recombinant virus highly unpredictable and prone to generating potentially undesirable variants. This important finding has not yet been taken into account in risk analysis of recombinant baculovirus insecticides and gene therapy vectors.

"Comments on the human health impact of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene product in genetically modified crops"

First, there is evidence that Bacillus thuringirnsis (Bt) cry 1 toxin will impact directly on human health through damage to the ileum , second , the use of synthetic Bt cry toxin genes has not been proven to be equivalent to the natural bacterial gene and finally, the introduction of natural and synthetic bacterial genes into crops and food sources for human or farm animals has not been evaluated regarding its introduction of high levels of the bacterial CpG trigger that activated the innate immune response. The study below shows that Bt Cry 1 toxin which is used extensively in corn and cotton products (oil and seed meal) used in human and animal food damages the mammalian ileum. Damage to the ileum can produce chronic illness such as fecal incontinence and/or flu like upsets of the digestive system.
This is the same bacillus gene cited as a possible cause of bee colony collapse. See next article down. - M. R.

Could genetically modified crops be killing bees?

Bees forage heavily on corn flowers to obtain pollen for the rearing of young broods, and these pollen grains also contain the Bt gene of the parent plant, because they are present in the cells from which pollen forms.

Is it not possible that while there is no lethal effect directly to the new bees, there might be some sublethal effect, such as immune suppression, acting as a slow killer?

 

 

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