A cautionary tale from biologist Walter Gilbert.
He explains that when they thought they had the human insulin gene, it turned out that they actually had the rat insulin gene, because of contamina…
An Example For Illustrating The Problems With Isolating “hiv”: Human Insulin Gene & Walter Gilbert
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Dec
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Tags: Example, Gene, Gilbert, Human, Illustrating, Insulin, Isolating, Problems, Walter
ACDluv
December 22, 2009 at 1:46 pm
The statement that “Only people who don’t have diabetes or diabetics who have never been on pork or beef natural insulin think the DNA synthetic insulin is a predictable safe insulin” is completely untrue. I can say from personal experience that the synthetic insulin has dramatically improved the quality of life for individuals with Type I diabetes.
deanjean71
December 22, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Canada and England had an increase in the death rate with rDNA synthetic insulin, so they fought back and now have the pork and beef natural insulin. A lot of Americans are importing natural pork and beef insulin from England and Canada. rDNA insulin was #8 for adverse effects. In America, we only have rDNA synthetic insulin and a lot of censorship on the subject. A lot of diabetics have complained about the rDNA synthetic insulin, but to no avail, because of the money and power that be.
deanjean71
December 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm
uhm, sounds a bit complicated, but bottom line is gel electroforesis technology, though has been used for a long time, isn’t quite fully understood yet-