Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA

[posey]

Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA

The discovery of alien DNA in the published human genome raises important questions about preventing 'virtual infections'

kfc 06/23/2011

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Earlier this year, molecular biologists announced that 20 per cent of nonhuman genome databases are contaminated with human DNA, probably from the researchers who sequenced the samples.

Now, the human genome itself has become contaminated. Bill Langdon at University College London and Matthew Arno at Kings College London say they've found sequences from mycoplasma bacteria in the human genome database.

This contamination has far reaching consequences. Biotech companies use the human genome database to create DNA chips that measure levels of human gene expression. Langdon and Arno say they've found mycoplasma DNA in two commercially available human DNA chips.

Anybody using these chips to measure human gene expression is also unknowingly measuring mycoplasma gene expression too.

In some ways, this is hardly a surprise. "It is well known that mycoplasma contamination is rife in molecular biology laboratories," says Langdon and Arno. With any luck the discovery of this stuff in the human genome database will focus minds on the problem.

A key question is the nature of this kind of information transmission. These mycoplasma genes are clearly successful in reproducing themselves in silico. One possibility is that we're seeing the beginnings of an entirely new kind of landscape of infection.

Here, genes that can masquerade as human (or indeed as other organisms) can successfully transmit themselves from one database to another. And if we think of this as virtual infection, a sure bet is that we'll be worrying about virtual evolution in the near future.

But what to do? The level of contamination and the way in which it is spreading suggests that researchers are losing the battle to eliminate it. "We.. fear current tools will be inadequate to catch genes which have jumped the silicon barrier," they say.

Most frightening of all is the possibility that Langdon and Arno may have only scratched the surface. "Having found two suspect DNA sequences, it seems likely the published "human genome" sequence contains more," they say.

If virtual infection is really as big a problem as Langdon and Arno suggest, we may well need to protect databases with the genomic version of antivirus software, a kind of virtual immune system.

But this in itself is likely to trigger an evolutionary arms race that selects genes most capable of beating the safeguards.

Clearly, this is a nettle that needs to be grasped quickly. That's if it's not too late already.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1106.4192: More Mouldy Data: Virtual Infection of the Human Genome

Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA - Technology Review

[Janice]

The more I read about all of this, the more frightened I become.

Man has just thrown all of these "science improving nature" creations out into the world, with out fully understanding how things work long term, or even to know how to stop it.
Instead of armes races, we are in the middle of genetic engineering races.


Are we too late.....can we get the genie back in the bottle?

[Janice]

So do you have fibers that seem to be fluorescent?





This may just be a "tag"" protein" added during gene modification for use as a cell tracer.

So "IF" indeed this is our problem, I guess it will be easy enough to prove it by reading our tags.

Guys this is not me wearing a tin foil hat so the CIA can't scan my brain, this is real science that is happening now.

The Fluorophore of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

GFP is a fluorescent protein isolated from coelenterates, such as the Pacific jellyfish, Aequoria victoria, or from the sea pansy, Renilla reniformis. Its role is to transduce the blue chemiluminescence of the protein aequorin into green fluorescent light by energy transfer. The gene for GFP has been isolated and has become a useful tool for making chimeric proteins of GFP linked to other proteins where it functions as a fluorescent protein tag. GFP tolerates N- and C-terminal fusion to a broad variety of proteins. It has been expressed in bacteria, yeast, slime mold, plants, drosophila, zebrafish, and in mammalian cells. As a noninvasive fluorescent marker in living cells, it allows for a wide range of applications where it may function as a cell lineage tracer, reporter of gene expression, or as a measure of protein-protein interactions.

[fritolay66]

See thats the thing, if mutations are occuring or resulting from all this mucking around, and I'm betting they are, then the only way to fight this is to fight with our own DNA. And so far, the only way I have found to do this, is nutritional therapy, those CpG islands being the most important. As this is where most of the DNA is actively expressed. If all their mucking around has either resulted in or as a result, changed the expression, turned on or off, what should or should not be turned on or off, the only way to address it is by our own DNA and the enzymes that affect the transcription.

This should apply whether the database is contaminated or not. As most with chronic disease can or have been diagnosed with some sort of mycoplasma infection. From this we can guestimate, that the mycoplasma is not the confounding factor but a commonality in chronic disease. What better way to target ourselves, than to use a database that also accounts for what is already in us and near impossible to get rid of.

And I still hold, there is still no better way to prove a commonality of illness between us, Morgellons as a group, than to identify genetic mutations and the nutrigenomics testing of enzymes and their levels in our body. It is still irrefutable evidence of illness and I absolutely believe it will prove a commonality connection for 100% of us. Isn't that what everyone has been clamouring for, for years. Here it is, this is the way to prove illness does exist and that it is most certainly not "all in our heads". Here is the way to shove DOP right down their throats.

Frito

[fritolay66]

And heres a bit more information on GFP. It is commonly used in wheat. GMO grown wheat. I find it funny that most of us have serious problems with wheat, gluten, and the transglutaminases.

GFP is in the food we eat. Do any of you remember about 10 years ago or so, it was a medical fact that human eyes did not glow in the dark? Have you noticed, that the exact opposite is now true? Why? It is in the food.

Frito

[Janice]

Frito, this is all very new to me in understanding of all of this, so forgive me if I ask dumb questions . I am reading more each day.




Since a majority of us have a weekend immune system from before this all started,are not the "introduced genes" DNA , replicating fast to over come our
Weak DNA... in essence doing their job?
How can one fight with our own DNA?

[Janice]

So the" gene jumping" is happening in the new host, which is us ...correct?
The flurescent protein added to wheat, if we have it in our body,( and it is not expelled as scientist had hoped for,) would be the marker for our bodies absorbing new DNA.

Do you think all of this crazy stuff that is happening to us, is because of the medium ( bacteria, fungus ect) that they use to graft (for lack of a better word) these cells or genes together in order to penetrate the organisms.


I am just trying to get this altogether in my mind to attempt an understanding.

[Janice]

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[Doc Holliday]

Genetic analysis of genome-wide variation in human gene expression Thanks posey, this states the database is contaminated & could have been contaminated by workers. A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example, the availability of rooms in hotels), in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example, finding a hotel with vacancies). The term "database" refers both to the way its users view it, and to the logical and physical materialization of its data, content, in files, computer memory, and computer data storage. This definition is very general, and is independent of the technology used. However, not every collection of data is a database; the term database implies that the data is managed to some level of quality (measured in terms of accuracy, availability, usability, and resilience) and this in turn often implies the use of a general-purpose Database management system>>>>>>>>key words from you post Posey>>>And if we think of this as virtual infection, >>>>Researcher Professor Nina Fefferman, from Tufts University School of Medicine, said: “Human behaviour has a big impact on disease spread. And virtual worlds offer an excellent platform for studying human behaviour.

“The players seemed to really feel they were at risk and took the threat of infection seriously, even though it was only a game.”

She acknowledged that a virtual setting might encourage riskier behaviour, but said this could be estimated and allowed for when drawing conclusions.

She said a major constraint for epidemiologists studying disease dynamics at the moment was that they were limited to observational and retrospective studies.

For example, it would be unethical to release an infectious disease in real life in order to study what the consequences might be.

Computer models allow for experimentation on virtual populations without such limitations, but still rely on mathematical rules to approximate human behaviour.

A virtual world may be a way to bridge this gap, said Professor Fefferman.

Her team at Tufts are looking to use models such as the World of Warcraft to further study human behaviour, particularly in relation to disease outbreaks.

Dr. Gary Smith, professor of Population Biology and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been working on modelling infectious diseases.”

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The human behavior aspect of MMORPGs has not gone unnoticed.

In 2006, a “Serious Games Initiative” was announced at video game expo E3 with the goal of “exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector.”

A recent note in the CDC’s “Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy” by Lynne S. Wilcox, MD, MPH, proposed that another popular game, “Sim City,” “could use this modeling to improve their understanding of how aspects of the community, such as its built environment, affect the wellness of its population.” The insights such studies could give to medical anthropologists, looking into development of communities and systems of medical care, patient-practitioner interactions, and illness narratives could be significant.