{"id":509567,"date":"2010-04-03T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18884161.post-2956608589392698598"},"modified":"2010-04-03T05:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T09:51:32","slug":"biofortified-what-if-bt-saved-human-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/509567","title":{"rendered":"Biofortified : What if Bt saved human lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofortified.org\/2010\/03\/what-if-bt-saved-human-lives\/\">Biofortified : What if Bt saved human lives?<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>What if Bt saved human lives?<\/div>\n<div>Mar 1st 2010<\/div>\n<div>Across at Biofortified<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I was in grad school, there was a lab in our department that studied intestinal parasitic roundworms.  Although this wasn\u2019t related to what I was doing in any way\u2014everyone who has been to grad school will know that you attend the department seminars for the donuts and\/or pizza no matter what the topic is.  I have to say, though, that the seminars from this lab made the donuts and pizza a little less appealing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the students of the lab defended his thesis work during this time frame.  He was a terrific speaker who made us understand the medical and economic burdens of these parasites on the impoverished communities he studied.  Somehow he managed to make the story of sample collection amusing\u2026. And the details of the discovery of his own infection (after a very hot curry meal) made that defense one of the most memorable during my career in science (Figure 1, right. Speaker and his infectious agent).  But I still remember the scientific point: these infections have real impacts on the humans and the agricultural animals that live in close proximity to them in the developing world.  And that there appear to have been separate and distinct infections in humans and in pigs in the studies they performed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until recently I hadn\u2019t thought much about the roundworms.  But this week when this paper came across my desk, I was glad to see that there was a potential breakthrough in the treatments for roundworms that could improve the health of millions of children.  And how might this be accomplished?  Using the Bt protein.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofortified.org\/2010\/03\/what-if-bt-saved-human-lives\/\">Biofortified for continuation<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18884161-2956608589392698598?l=gmopundit.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofortified : What if Bt saved human lives? What if Bt saved human lives? Mar 1st 2010 Across at Biofortified When I was in grad school, there was a lab in our department that studied intestinal parasitic roundworms. Although this wasn\u2019t related to what I was doing in any way\u2014everyone who has been to grad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}