Once transferred into gut bacteria, transgenes may confer survival advantages,
allowing them to endure and spread.
These advantages may be due to antibiotic or herbicide resistance, promoters
that function in bacteria and genetic mechanisms that promote uncontrolled
replication.
Having “infected” our gut bacteria, the foreign genes and the proteins they
create may be harmful.
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Check out the Le Monde research.
You may want to include it in future
editions
Comments by Jeffrey M. Smith
Date: May 11, 2007
Thank you for this update, which we will be sure to include in the newer editions of Genetic Roulette. Le Monde wrote an article about this new research, which is posted here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/
article_4790.cfm.
