Jeffrey M. Smith
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 When the number of human genes was reported on June 26, 2000 as approximately 30,000, it exploded the myth of one-gene, one-protein. In reality, the vast majority of genes can encode for more than one protein; some can produce several.
Splicing RNA produces new proteins
In organisms that have cells with a nucleus (eukaryotes), most genes include two types of sequences. Sections that code for proteins are called exons. Sections located between exons but do not create proteins are called introns. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 This database, a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, is authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, and it was developed for the World Wide Web by the National Center for Biotechnology information (NCBI).
15 Maternal disomy is inheritance of an extra maternal chromosome or part thereof. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 This situation has come about only in the past century or so, but it takes tens of thousands of years for our biology to evolve — there's a mismatch between our lifestyle and our genes. human genes are thrifty by nature, so we end up stockpiling calories while we're sitting at our desks.
In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news—and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying. |
David Steinman
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 Research projects, for instance, have proved how close human genes are to those of animals, even those of insects," Grace Glueck wrote in her New York Times review of the exhibit. "The subject of legal and ethical rights for animals is no longer easily dismissed. And studies of animals communicating within their own species, as well as with humans, are seriously pursued. Bears and other mammals are invading villages to reclaim turf seized by suburbia. On the darker side of the subject, humans are increasingly susceptible to animal diseases, among them mad cow and avian flu. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Potatoes glowed in the dark when thirsty. human genes were inserted into corn to produce spermicide. Pharmaceutical companies inserted genes into bacteria, turning them into living factories to produce drugs. And seed companies gave new traits to crops.
GM crops: Two traits in four crops by five companies in six countries
Five companies comprise the GM seed industry, known as Ag biotech. Monsanto is the largest, with their GM seed technology and traits accounting for 88% of the GM acreage planted in 2005. |
| In fact, "well over one-third of human genes appear to be" regulated by double stranded RNA (dsRNA).53
One of the best known functions of regulatory RNA is to silence genes. This is typically accomplished by very small RNA molecules, e.g. less than 30 nucleotides,54 usually in the form of double-stranded RNA. "Silencing instigated by dsRNA occurs in organisms of all biological kingdoms. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Cancer has always been an extremely rare illness, except in industrialized nations during the past 40-50 years. human genes have not significantly changed for thousands of years. Why would they change so drastically now, and suddenly decide to kill scores of people? The answer to this question, which I will further elaborate on in this book, is amazingly simple: Damaged or faulty genes do not kill anyone. Cancer does not kill a person afflicted with it! What kills a cancer patient is not the tumor, but the numerous reasons behind cell mutation and tumor growth. |
| Likewise, Leukemia virus in chicken has been used as a carrier to insert human genes into developing poultry. It gets better, or shall I say, worse. A retrovirus was used to insert human fetal cells in pigs in order to grow aortas for transplantation into humans. When the pig's aorta was transplanted into the human body, it led to infections in humans with the pig's retrovirus.
When these viruses are used as part of genetic engineering, they combine with one another to create new plant and animal diseases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Technically, the corporations that "own" these human genes could sue the parents of all newborns, demanding royalty payments for the use of their intellectual property.
Want to know more shocking facts about intellectual property and the future of food, agriculture and human civilization? See The Future of Food for yourself. And while you're at it, be sure to visit the Center for Food safety (www.centerforfoodsafety.org), a non-profit organization that's been doing the oversight job our own government should have been doing. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| I *he gene-manipulators claim JL they can foresee the evolutionary results of their artificial transposings of human genes into sheep, bovine genes into tomatoes, altered bacterial genes into eggplant, etc. But such claims are a reflection more of arrogance than of scientific analysis."
—Robert Mann, biochemist, University of Auckland
SECTION 6:
GM crops may increase environmental toxins and bioaccumulate toxins in the food chain
GM crops do not exist in isolation. They are a component of industrial farming practices and part of a complex ecosystem and food web. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On top of that, biotech companies are now playing God with the human genome, trying to figure out ways to create new, high-profit blockbuster drugs that selectively alter human genes to "cure disease" (or at least manage the disease without actually curing it so that patients need to keep buying more drugs). |
Jack Challem
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 As it turned out, the new millennium coincided with the complete decoding of the human genome, and this catalog of all human genes has led to many new insights into the function of DNA. Unfortunately, the promise of turning these discoveries into practical ways of preventing and treating disease has so far been disappointing. Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death in the United States and most of the developed world, while the scourge of cancer continues to take its relentless toll despite minor advances in treatment and prevention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Contrary to previous beliefs, as much as 10 percent of human genes vary wildly from one person to the next. The mainstream press is hailing the discovery and some sort of breakthrough that will shed light on so-called "incurable" diseases and give researchers the ability to create more targeted medicines. (There's always a pro-Pharma slant in the mainstream media isn't there?) In reality, this new DNA discovery explains why most pharmaceuticals don't work for most people. |
Jack Challem
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| So, over many years, nutrient-dense foods helped shape the structure and function of human genes. At the same time, our genes became dependent on foods containing relatively large amounts of vitamins and minerals but relatively small amounts of carbohydrate calories from starches and sugars. Around ten thousand years ago, human eating habits started changing with the advent of agriculture, which led to substantial increases in carbohydrate and sugar intake. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's the genetically modified corn, which may have human genes, fish genes, whatever. Okay, it's kind of an aberration, and our bodies aren't really programmed to handle it; it's not natural. It may biochemically look kind of like it, but actually when they've done the studies, it isn't biochemically the same. They are different; they've got different genes, so that throws the body off a little bit. Now, there was a really interesting study by Dr. Pusztai in Scotland. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 A hereditary link to asthma was discovered in late 1999 by two Berkeley, California, researchers who spliced human genes into mice and determined that asthmatic activity could be diminished by slowing the activity of two particular genes. The value of the research, they said, centered on the fact that scientists now have an opportunity to develop a medicine to prevent asthma, rather than merely treat its symptoms.
This genetic-based research milestone in asthma prevention arrived at an important juncture. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They're putting human genes into plants now, trying to clone everything under the sun. They think they are God.
Real scientists are humble
Now a real scientist, as I said, is a humble servant of nature. A true scientist is curious and wants to find out how things work, and a true scientist, by the way, does not have a predefined set of filters in place that automatically reject new ideas. When Burzynski developed the antineoplastons for cancer therapies, a new therapy for actually curing cancer, organized medicine, if it had been scientific, should have welcomed his work with open arms. |
Jacky Law
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 The rights being granted on some sequences were very extensive and many scientists felt that with human genes, a line had been passed and there needed to be a stronger protest because it was clearly a policy issue that couldn't be left to lawyers alone.'28
That protest, along with arguments between the two sides as to how far they had got, who said what about whom, and so on, became such an embarrassment, that US president Bill Clinton appointed an impartial broker in Ari Patrinos from the Department of Energy to get the two sides to at least pretend to be collaborating. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Estradiol hormone implanted in cattle ear skin twice in 50 days increases weight, but disrupts endocrine hormones, and damages human genes causing cancer. Synovex with estradiol and progesterone increased meat levels 20 times normal. Since using estrogenic pesticides and xenoestrogens from the 1950's, risk of breast cancer increased 55%, testicle cancer 120%, and prostate cancer 190%(Dr. Samuel Epstein, Univ. of Illinois).
HOSPITALIZATION SEE Healing.
•HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) SEE Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.). |
| Pork and Fish with human genes.
Apples made firmer and crisper with pig genes.
Bananas infused with peanut genesto increase Calcium content, which may affect some peanut-allergic persons. Soybeans that become unaffected by fast-acting bacterias. Squash, Cantaloupe, and Cucumbers made to resist common viruses. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Certainly human genes hadn't changed dramatically—if, indeed, at all—during those eight years. In fact, for most of human history, obesity was a non-issue. It occurred only among royalty—which, not coincidentally, was the only group that could afford our modern obesity-prone lifestyles.
The fact is that for the most part, genes involved in weight gain don't directly cause corpulence but rather increase susceptibility to it in those who possess the genes when they are exposed to modern obesity-friendly environments—which is most of the time. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 When the number of human genes was ultimately tallied and reported on June 26,2000, it shocked the scientific world: there were only about 30,000. Oops.
This figure not only fails to account for the estimated number of proteins, it falls short of explaining the vast quantity of inheritable traits in the human body. Moreover, there are weeds with as many as 26,000 genes. Given the one protein-one gene theory, shouldn't humans have far more genes than a weed? Something seemed terribly wrong.
It turns out that the vast majority of genes do not encode for a unique protein. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 They have put insect genes into potatoes, bacterial genes in corn and human genes in animals. The mix and match potential is endless.
Here are some examples of specific combinations:
The silkworm gene can be found in apples and apple juice. The petunia gene can be in some soybeans and carrots. The barley gene can be in walnuts. Potatoes can have a chicken gene. Tomatoes can have a flounder gene.
A cancer chicken virus is used as a carrier so that a growth hormone gene can be introduced or implanted into farmed fish so they grow faster. |
John Robbins
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 These are animals with human genes; these are animals that have a variety of viruses in them. They did this without consulting Congress. They did this without making it public. These animals have been in the food chain now since 1995."4S
If this is true, people eating meats and meat products in the United States today are not only exposing themselves without their knowledge or consent to higher than ever herbicide residues and genetically engineered substances. They may also be eating parts of animals that have had human genes engineered into their DNA. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Much research has now been done on human genes and obesity.9 Sophisticated techniques are being used to identify genes that predispose people to weight gain and to diseases like diabetes. In scientific parlance, 25 percent to 40 percent of the variability in population body weight can be explained by genes (as the weight of the population changes, 25 percent to 40 percent of the fluctuation is attributable to genetics). |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| The number of human genes capable of coding for only a single trait can be counted on your hands.
The fact that a gene creates multiple proteins may explain some of the surprises that keep popping up for genetic engineers, and it is first on our list of what can go wrong and why.
1. Code Scramblers
To make a protein, the DNA uses its unique genetic code to write a prescription for its chief assistant, RNA. The RNA fills the prescription by creating and assembling amino acids. The amino acids form the protein. |
Michael Castleman
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 The leading theory is that human genes have not had time to adapt to the modem diet. Our prehistoric ancestors ate only a small fraction of the foods that we eat: mostly wild fruits and vegetables; occasionally meat and eggs; never grains, dairy products, or junk food. That's a far cry from the burgers, fries, and soft drinks that pass for meals these days.
Even though tens of thousands of years separate us from our prehistoric ancestors, that's just a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. Human genetic makeup has changed very little. |
Richard Leviton
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 At least twenty-four human genes have been disseminated wantonly throughout the animal kingdom in experimental xenografts; the integrity of the human biological organization is being abrogated and deconstructed. Ahrimanic America, inheritor of the medical rites of Toatl, "remains the undisputed leader in the genetic engineering of animals," says Kimbrell.
Environmental Estrogens: Ahrimanic Elementals Commandeer the Human Endocrine System
There are other human-made but Ahrimanically influenced agents that are also taking the human organism apart, at the molecular level of hormones. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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 Emphasis should be placed on developing systems that use human genes, enzymes, cells, or tissues. Because most present short-term tests detect DNA-reactive compounds, new methods are needed for screening chemicals for nongenotoxic end points, such as cell proliferation, hormonal effects, receptor-mediated events and effects on cell-cell interactions, gene expression, differentiation, and apoptosis (programmed cell death). Great promise exists for the use of transgenic mice. |
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