Priory_of_Sion Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 You can't just give the North Koreans GMO foods with Bt in it to act as a pesticide because hippies so a British non-profit and a Swiss NGO had to give the North Koreans a plant to produce Bt naturally. North Korea deserves to have organic starvation! By the way, do you know whats really similar to Bacillus thuringiensis? Bacillus anthracis. There is a reason why they just showed it off right after the little Anthrax fuck up we had last month. Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Anthrax is a living thing so biology. Biology covers zoology. I'm in the right sub-forum, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 You can't just give the North Koreans GMO foods with Bt in it to act as a pesticide because hippies so a British non-profit and a Swiss NGO had to give the North Koreans a plant to produce Bt naturally. North Korea deserves to have organic starvation! By the way, do you know whats really similar to Bacillus thuringiensis? Bacillus anthracis. There is a reason why they just showed it off right after the little Anthrax fuck up we had last month. Link its like their making Twinkies's in there or something RobotMinisterofTrueKorea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Anthrax is a living thing so biology. Biology covers zoology. I'm in the right sub-forum, right? We don't have a flora forum, so here is fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 B.Anthracis is also native to most middle eastern soils. Albeit, the concentration is small enough to not be that much of a worry to the troops. Anthrax has a very interesting life cycle, epidemiologically speaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Though, Colli-man, the two species differ mainly in plasmids. You could probably *citation needed* get Bt to produce the AB toxin for Anthrax, but the method in which the disease presents wouldn't be completely the same. But this is NoKo we're talking about. They'll probably accidentally kill a few scientists first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Virulence plasmids are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8184534 Smallpox is only ~700 base pairs, and laughably easy to engineer. Virulence plasmids are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Eh, with a halfway competent molecular biology lab (of which there are thousands) you could make a bacterium express just about any protein you want. But disease is more than simple protein expression. To cut a long story short, developing a live bioweapon is a huge undertaking and not at all dependent on your access to gene sequence data or PCR machines. So best Korea is in no real danger of improving upon anthrax (which isn't that hard to culture anyway once you have a viable sample from your local cattle lot) using the facilities the OP mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 You can't just give the North Koreans GMO foods with Bt in it to act as a pesticide because hippies so a British non-profit and a Swiss NGO had to give the North Koreans a plant to produce Bt naturally. North Korea deserves to have organic starvation! By the way, do you know whats really similar to Bacillus thuringiensis? Bacillus anthracis. There is a reason why they just showed it off right after the little Anthrax fuck up we had last month. Link Why is this thread in logy you ask? Maybe its because Gooks are animals? just kiddin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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