weck at rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de wrote:
>> Hey folks don't you all know how these products are made?
> If some one wants to control whether the genetic manipulation
> was successful he/she needs something as a marker in the product.
> the markers often are resistances agains antibiotics!
> So do not wonder if with all the gmo-food stuff your next bacterial
> infection will end in a desaster!
Despite the alarmist ending, this post does make a good point. Removal
of antibiotic resistance markers from engineered crops is a big item on
the agenda of the agri-biotech companies. Such products (which have the
resistance gene removed after the gene of interest is transferred in)
are becoming available.
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Eli V. Hestermann
ehestermann at whoi.edu
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Vita brevis est, ars longa" - Seneca
