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Originally posted by CAPT PROTON
The US is a little ahead of the curve on that one. ... George Bush Sr. was provided with jackets made of the stuff to stop bullets. If they had it then, no telling what they have now.
"Scientists have evidence that bacteria dangerous to humans have begun evolving in insects, for reasons that are not clear.
The October edition of Nature Reviews: Microbiology reports that invertebrates such as worms and insects may have begun enabling a rapid evolution for bacteria normally not harmful to humans.
Not only are insects capable of delivering disease through bites and stings, they now may be the breeding ground for strains of infectious bacteria never before seen in humans."
Dangerous Bacteria Evolving in Insects
www.unknowncountry.com...
�Animal prion infections, such as scrapie (sheep) and "mad cow disease" (cattle), have shown a pattern of horizontal transmission in farm conditions and several ectoparasites have been shown to harbor prion rods in laboratory experiments. Fly larvae and mites were exposed to brain-infected material and were readily able to transmit scrapie to hamsters. New lines of evidence have confirmed that adult flies are also able to express prion proteins. � Several cell types found on the human skin, including keratinocytes, fibroblasts and lymphocytes, are susceptible to the abnormal infective isoform of the prion protein, which transforms the skin to produce a potential target for prion infection.�
Int J Dermatol. 2003 Jun;42(6):425-9. Could ectoparasites act as vectors for prion diseases? Lupi O. Center for Vaccine Development, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA. PMID: 12786866
This 1986 paper describes how "proteinaceous capsids" use viruses as vehicles of transmission, and how RNA interference silences genes.
Schmidt FR, Lemke PA, Esser K (1986) Viral influences on aflatoxin formation by Aspergillus flavus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 24:248-252
�Epidemiological observations indicate that a microbial vector is responsible for the transmission of natural prion disease in sheep and goats and that the real causative agent may correspond to a structural protein of that microorganism. � A similar phenomenon was already described with a protein antigen of the ameba Naegleria gruberi. The various serotypes of the microbial protein may account for the existence of scrapie strains. It is proposed that many microbial proteins may be capable of replicating themselves in mammalian cells eliciting and sustaining thereby degenerative and/or autoimmune reactions subsequent to infections with microorganisms.�
Med Hypotheses. 1999 Aug;53(2):91-102. Is the pathogen of prion disease a microbial protein? Fuzi M. Budapest Institute of National Public Health and Medical Officer Service, Hungary. PMID: 10532698
Originally posted by sardion2000
I preping a post about it and don't wanna give away too much here but it involves the Open Source movement and Creative Commons licencing(allthough I do not know whether there is a patent equivalent)
there is this little scam called the free market and free enterprise. Talking about it on the soapbox is gonna have little effect what for-profit companies do with their IP
...I did a post a while back about Open Access - with some refs about its status and how it's being used. Might be useful to you
I also know what happened back around WWI with the (mis-folded) actin protein
Am waging a personal campaign to get prion/actin/fibrosis/amyloid links publicly acknowledged and dealt with.
...sigh. True. But I'm more thinking oversight... If the technology can't be used to benefit humankind, at least stop it from being abused to destroy the world.
Originally posted by sardion2000
...I did a post a while back about Open Access - with some refs about its status and how it's being used. Might be useful to you
Oh you did? Whats the link? I was gonna start a new post about that very subject but why waste board space I'll just add it to yours.
I also know what happened back around WWI with the (mis-folded) actin protein
Heh? What happened in WWI that had to do with protean folding, if it was a complete Feck up im not surprised as our knowledge back then was pretty limited.
Am waging a personal campaign to get prion/actin/fibrosis/amyloid links publicly acknowledged and dealt with.
Well I applaud you if you think its that seroius I however have my doubts still but that is another thread .
...sigh. True. But I'm more thinking oversight... If the technology can't be used to benefit humankind, at least stop it from being abused to destroy the world.
The only way I can see this happening is if enough scientists embrace the CC concept and embrace open-source as a way of working with their peers from all around the world with no corporate involvment. I believe there is one such group already, not sure what theyve been up to lately ill try and hunt down the link on ATS search.
Originally posted by sardion2000
i'll also do yet more research into the whole prion thing again(but be warned I also have quite a number of friends in various Academic fields who'll be able to confirm or deny these things as I deem them trustworthy, morally acceptable people i might prove to be very argumentative in this case, on the other hand if I can confirm these allegations then I will be a staunch supporter its just how I work I aint no ones patsy ).
[edit on 28-11-2004 by sardion2000]
Originally posted by Mephorium
Would not the elasticity of the silk be a problem in bulletproof vests?
[edit on 27-11-2004 by Mephorium]