The Slow Invasion – Human DNA Manipulation Has Occurred and Still Ongoing Scientists Say

PATRICK C – BENDEDREALITY.COM

All of us, are in the process of becoming something else, something less human. Our very DNA is under assault, from known and unknown sources. I’ll provide modern examples of something called horizontal gene transfer, as well as evidence of paranormal phenomenon exposureand horizontal gene transfer.

Many animals, including humans, acquired essential ‘foreign’ genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient times, according to research published in the open access journal Genome Biology. The study challenges the conventional view that animal evolution relies solely on genes passed down through ancestral lines and suggests that, at least in some lineages, the process is still ongoing.

The transfer of genes between organisms living in the same environment is known as horizontal gene transfer. It is well known in single-celled organisms and thought to be an important process that explains how quickly bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics, for example.

Lead author Alastair Crisp from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge said: “This is the first study to show how widely horizontal gene transfer occurs in animals, including humans, giving rise to tens or hundreds of active ‘foreign’ genes. Surprisingly, far from being a rare occurrence, it appears that this has contributed to the evolution of many, perhaps all, animals and that the process is ongoing. We may need to re-evaluate how we think about evolution.”

In humans, they confirmed 17 previously-reported genes acquired from horizontal gene transfer, and identified 128 additional foreign genes in the human genome that have not previously been reported. A number of genes, including the ABO gene, which determines an individual’s blood group, were also confirmed as having been acquired by vertebrates through horizontal gene transfer. The majority of the genes were related to enzymes involved in metabolism.

The authors say that their analysis probably underestimates the true extent of horizontal gene transfer in animals and that direct transfer between complex multicellular organisms is also plausible, and already known in some host-parasite relationships.

Bite from tick can turn you into a vegetarian

Modern example of horizontal gene transfer in Humans: Tick bite turns people into Vegetarian’s – Meat Allergy

(NaturalNews) It seems that there is a decline in meat eaters throughout the nation, at least red meat consumers. But it’s not out of compassion for animals or for nurturing their own health by keeping out secondhand antibiotics, hormones injected into cattle, or factory farm meat from GMO mush feed cattle with their attendant toxic herbicides and pesticides.

Of course, some meat eaters are wise enough to avoid factory farm products and go with free-range grass-fed cattle that are not injected with antibiotics and hormones. But the ranks are thinning slightly among both types of meat eaters because of tick bites.

It seems that a tick called the lone star tick — because it supposedly originated, ironically, from the beef-producing state of Texas — creates an extreme allergy to meat, especially red meat, that sometimes forces folks into hospital emergency rooms. But it doesn’t cause Lyme disease.

Are lone star ticks protecting cattle from gruesome deaths after terrible living conditions?

Lone star ticks and deer ticks are the two basic types of ugly parasitic insects discussed here that latch onto mammalian bodies and get fat, literally, on mammalian blood. Garlic, silver bullets and crosses don’t seem to affect them, but they do mostly stay out of direct sunlight.

But the meat allergy from lone star ticks wasn’t realized until 2011, when Dr. Scott Commins and Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills published the first paper linking rising meat allergies to the lone star tick. One of their first cases involved a bow hunter who had eaten meat all of his life, then he suddenly had a rash of several ER visits after eating meat.

Then, other outdoor0type people started coming in with similar allergic reactions. “It seemed something geographical. We thought at first it might be a squirrel parasite,” Dr. Commins explained. “It took us a while to sort of put everything together.”

Reporting from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Dr. Commins said, “I see two to three new cases every week.”

Dr. Erin McGintee, an allergy specialist on eastern Long Island, has seen so many tick-induced meat allergies that she’s created a database to help overall research on the mighty lone star tick.

“It is bizarre,” she exclaimed. “‘It goes against almost anything I’ve ever learned as an allergist,’” she said, as reported by The Associated Press, “because the symptoms can occur as long as eight hours after eating meat, rather than immediately, and the culprit is a sugar [from the tick] — a type of carbohydrate — whereas most food allergies are caused by proteins.”

And those symptoms can be very intense: extreme itching and burning skin sensations with hives that completely puff up one’s face, shutting one’s eyelids and constricting the throat and trachea (windpipe) to the point of not being able to speak or breathe.

Whenever you see “de novo” origin of a gene invoked, you know that evolutionary biologists lack any explanation for how that gene arose.
The old way of thinking – Genetics

For most of the last 40 years, scientists thought that this was the primary way new genes were born — they simply arose from copies of existing genes. The old version went on doing its job, and the new copy became free to evolve novel functions.

Certain genes, however, seem to defy that origin story. They have no known relatives, and they bear no resemblance to any other gene. They’re the molecular equivalent of a mysterious beast discovered in the depths of a remote rainforest, a biological enigma seemingly unrelated to anything else on earth.

The mystery of where these orphan genes came from has puzzled scientists for decades. But in the past few years, a once-heretical explanation has quickly gained momentum — that many of these orphans arose out of so-called junk DNA, or non-coding DNA, the mysterious stretches of DNA between genes. “Genetic function somehow springs into existence,” said David Begun, a biologist at the University of California, Davis.

This metamorphosis was once considered to be impossible, but a growing number of examples in organisms ranging from yeast and flies to mice and humans has convinced most of the field that these de novo genes exist. Some scientists say they may even be common.

Just last month, research presented at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Vienna identified 600 potentially new human genes. “The existence of de novo genes was supposed to be a rare thing,” said Mar Alb, an evolutionary biologist at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute in Barcelona, who presented the research. “But people have started seeing it more and more.”

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