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  1. Lyle Zoerman on What is a Prion?
    Lyle Zoerman Lyle Zoerman United States says:
    December 1, 2013 at 9:19 PM

    My concern is in creating GMO foods that may have the same result as prions. It took decades to discover, and it still takes maybe 2 decades to diagnose after initial infection. If a GMO creates a prion or prionlike folded protien, it could decimate a population before discovery.

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    • GMO - Prion causality?
      Bill Board Bill Board United States says:
      August 31, 2015 at 6:25 PM

      The modifications inherent within GMOs are highly specific and specialized within their targeted function, specifically limited to areas of plant growth cycles, and resistance to specific organisms, ie, molds or pests.  The ingestion of these foods are broken down within human digestion, such that their constituent molecular bases are synthesized the same as any food. Food not absorbed is simply excreted.  The possibility of say... oncogene synthesis, or horizontal gene transfer and the genesis of prions from plants modified isn't plausible as there is no chain mechanism to enable this.

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      • Really?
        Greg Cantin Greg Cantin United States says:
        May 1, 2021 at 3:21 PM

        6 years later, do you still believe your blanket endorsement above,  about the inherent safety of GMO products?

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        • What changed within these 6 years that would make Bill change his mind?
          A Knight A Knight United States says:
          May 18, 2021 at 5:29 PM

          What changed within these 6 years that would make Bill change his mind? Have gmos caused the formation of prions, yet? Last I checked, gmos are saving lives in poor, arid parts of the globe, while we sit in our ivory towers insisting that gmos are bad because we don't understand them.

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          • Play god and find out. Watch what the future holds. Man always thinks he's
            Nate G Nate G Australia says:
            December 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM

            Play god and find out. Watch what the future holds. Man always thinks he's improving things, how long did we survive without any of this stuff(technological advancements). Cycles and patterns are the ebbs and flows of life, man does not dictate to them, they dictate to man. The more man learns, the more he should realize how much he really does not know. Nature has it's own will, the more you bend its will, there will be major consequences that will reverberate throughout modern society. The next solution will be, let's meld man and machine, which much closer than what people realize. You might not believe me now but once again, watch what the future holds. For technology to save us, we must become one with technology, this will be the powers to be new catch phrase. I wonder why if man died, nature would continue on living, shouldn't we therefore learn how to live with and take care of nature instead of manipulating it and trying to control it.

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