Tobacco; Part of Serum to cure Ebola

[Smoqman]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/08/05/ebola-secret-serum-small-biopharma-the-army-and-big-tobacco/

 

[Ducttapegonewild]

So, what they're saying is we won't get Ebola?

 

[Whtwtrman79]

Now that is an interesting article

 

[herfdog]

Tell that to naysayers that preach "tobacco will killer you"

 

[problemsolverjc]

Its a great article! A number of news outlets are picking it up without the mention of tobacco... http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/06/researchers-find-potential-treatments-for-future-ebola-outbreaks/

 

[smokinghole]

I didnt read the article but I heard this on the radio. Based on my biotech background I would guess they are leaving out the mention of the tobacco being a gmo. They likely transformed it genetically with an engineered agrobacterium tumafaciens. This has a natural genetic modification molecular machinery to hijack a tumor in a plant to utilize its metabolic activity. Then science just exploited it and expanded it to modify an entire plant.

 

[xFreebirdx]

I didnt read the article but I heard this on the radio. Based on my biotech background I would guess they are leaving out the mention of the tobacco being a gmo. They likely transformed it genetically with an engineered agrobacterium tumafaciens. This has a natural genetic modification molecular machinery to hijack a tumor in a plant to utilize its metabolic activity. Then science just exploited it and expanded it to modify an entire plant.

That's exactly what I was going to say..................:hammersma

 

[smokinghole]

Just did a little searching and I did find mention of agrobacterium. Pretty cool, I studied it a bit in school. The book I used is no longer in print either and it was a darn good book.