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Firm says it could make 10 million doses vaccine per month against the #coronavirus, if approved by FDA. Medicago CEO Bruce Clark said they could produce as many as 10 million doses a month. How could they do that so fast? Using plant GMO, that’s how! defenseone.com/technology/202…
Medicago doesn’t work with a live virus. Instead, it uses GMO plants. The plant begins to produce the protein that can then be used as a vaccine. If the virus begins to mutate, as is expected for COVID-19, they can just update the production using new plants.
So a plant GMO-based vaccine can now save the world against a deadly scourge #coronavirus?
@medicagoinc approach to rapidly producing lots of vaccine against #COVID19 through crop biotechnology
Plants are used as biofactories
Engineered plant viruses inoculated to GM crops to rapidly produce pharmaceutical grade proteins!
Link to the @medicagoinc
medicago.com/en/technologie…
Washing off bad karma? Tobacco giant owns 40% of the Medicago company, because the antibody against the novel #coronavirus would be produced in GM tobacco plants!

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Channa Prakash
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You are looking at one of oldest microbes on earth! A single-celled ancient lineage of Archaea, a domain of life similar to bacteria. Took 12 years of lab work to grow them! Shows life’s greatest leaps toward complexity, from bacteria-like organisms to complicated eukaryotes.
Link to the Nature paper nature.com/articles/s4158…
“On the basis of the available data obtained from cultivation and genomics, and reasoned interpretations of the existing literature, we propose a hypothetical model for eukaryogenesis, termed the entangle–engulf–endogenize”
An unusual meal kicked off the evolution of complicated cell2B years ago. An ancient archaean gobbled up a bacterium sparked a symbiotic relationship (endosymbiosis), evolving into mitochondria, the energy-producing cellular structures that fueled the rise of complex life.
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C. S. Prakash
@AgBioWorld
Golden Rice finally released in Bangladesh! Planting 2 months away, Golden grains packed with lifesaving proVA should be in the markets later this year! Anti-GMO now be like “Oh no – a GMO is about to actually help people. We must stop this “at all costs.” theness.com/neurologicablo…
Golden rice is not about using chemicals, not patented, no big corporation is benefiting, the seeds are given freely to poor farmers, only goal is to improve nutrition for poor people, esp children, and to reduce their health burden. What more could you ask for? - @stevennovella
The actual situation so thoroughly flies in the face of all the anti-GMO lies and distortions that it causes them to panic. The anti-golden rice propaganda machine is going into full steam. Hopefully, however, reality has too much momentum to stop them - @stevennovella
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C. S. Prakash
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Bangladesh farmers who grew GMO Bt brinjal made 55% more money than those who grew regular pesticide-needing type, according to a government study. India which actually developed this, stupidly banned it, depriving its farmers & consumers dhakatribune.com/business/2019/…
Link to the original paper by BD scientists: “Net returns per hectare were Tk. 179,602/ha for Bt eggplant as compared to Tk. 29,841/ha for non-Bt eggplant. Pesticides were applied 11 times to Bt eggplant where as it was 41 times to non- Bt eggplant for controlling sucking pests”
“The Bt eggplant farmers saved 61 percent of the pesticide cost compared to non-Bt eggplant farmers, experienced no losses due to fruit and shoot borer, and received higher net returns”
banglajol.info/index.php/BJAR… Thanks @greenfork
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Good morning.

The House Oversight Committee wants answers and they want them now on why broad testing for #coronavirus has yet to take place. Lawmakers will also scrutinize how tests are paid for, the role of insurers and more.
Hearing begins today at 930AM ET.
The witnesses:
On March 3, the Cmte sent a letter to CDC director Robert Redfield requesting the following breakdown on coronavirus cases. ⬇️
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Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested. Side note China endowed Harvard 1 billion dollars.
Who is Dr. Charles Lieber?
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#coronavirus:

#China's Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on #Wuhan virus deaths

Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus

An error or the "real" numbers?
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594
As many experts question the veracity of China's statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths, which were astronomically higher than official figures.
On Saturday evening Feb. ), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker", showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure.
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