Scientists Create Genetically Modified ‘Super Banana’ That Could Save Thousands of Children’s Lives

Evening Standard ^ | 7/10 | Liz Connor

[VietVet876]

I’m just wild about saffron...........they call it mellow yellow..

[camle]

nice... another new super hero to compete with florida man!

[Pelham]

Donovan and Mellow Yellow

[Veto!]

Does it come with instructions on how to put on a condom the proper way?

I hope it comes with vitamin A AND a substance that will curtail fertility.

[I want the USA back]

Ridiculous. What next? bananas with viagara?

[a fool in paradise]

Libs will oppose it. GMO foods.

And it isn’t just for what they eat, it’s for what the bees pollinate and other environmental impact...

[Mrs. Don-o]

Sorry. I am probably confused. I have a legit excuse,: extremely, severely low iron, doc tells me.

So, OK, we’ll do a do-over. What was your point again, about the condoms?

[BlueDragon]

Writing in Wiley’s Plant Biotechnology journal, Professor James Dale, who led the research, said: “Over the years, we’ve been able to develop a banana that has achieved excellent provitamin A levels, hence the golden-orange rather than cream-coloured flesh.”

[BlueDragon]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=school+teens+banana++condom+&t=ffsb&ia=web

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, yeah, got that from the git-go, but what does that gave to do with.... Oh, never mind.

I thought it was a hopeful article about saving little boys and girls from preventable blindness caused by Vitamin A deficiency. Something kind of encouraging, for once, about human intelligence and caring.

[353FMG]

It says that it is a hoax.

[BlueDragon]

Yeah, yeah, got that from the git-go, but what does that gave to do with.... Oh, never mind.

I thought it was a hopeful article about saving little boys and girls from ...

Maybe try re-reading what was quoted in comment #3;

“Could save thousands of children’s lives”

which then led to what that person who goes by "shotgun" posted as snarky response -- just maybe?

Perhaps your iron is low, as you say.

I did not make the comment to which you had strangely replied;

On your typing fingers?

though I did make an attempt towards making a glove joke out of the set-up. I decided to delete it.

--- but here I am having to explain to you how the mix-up happened?

"Could have saved thousands of children's lives"

"...article about saving little boys and girls from..."

Check into getting some of than vitamin A, yourself maybe? I hear shark liver can be rich with it, though I'm not recommending those as a source. Basking sharks are so rich with it you don't won't to touch it -- like Trump would maybe say if he knew what I know -- "trust me" you don't want to touch basking shark liver, bare handed.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thud-headed: yeah, I may be one for the textbooks. My ferritin is supposed to be, like, between 55 and 65.

I’s 1.

As in ONE.

I’m heavily into chicken liver just now. My odd and so far ineffective choice of substance abuse. Got an IV iron infusion this morning though. Explains my periodic, fugitive flashes of brilliance, no doubt.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thud-headed: yeah, I may be one for the textbooks. My ferritin is supposed to be, like, between 55 and 65.

I’s 1.

As in ONE.

I’m heavily into chicken liver just now. My odd and so far ineffective choice of substance abuse. Got an IV iron infusion this morning though. Explains my periodic, fugitive flashes of brilliance, no doubt.

[tbw2]

There is a theory that it was those who left the comfortable, evolved for niche that had to face challenges that made higher intelligence a greater survival advantage, so those who left Africa and faced a variety of new environments to which they had to adapt culturally became smarter.
Hence the average IQ for blacks around 85 versus 100 for whites and 105 for Asians.

[goodnesswins]

What is a hoax?

[Vendome]

You don’t live with your parents anymore, you don’t have grow up or anything...

[nickcarraway]

What are you, a James Bond villain?

[BlueDragon]

ferritin ... supposed to be... between 55 and 65

I learned something new, there. Thanks. Sorry I had to learn it this way.

But just think --- now you automatically qualify for all "tard" pings on FR. There's always a bright side. <];^')

Got an IV iron infusion this morning though.

Heavy metals. They do a body good.

Ask for for a side of mercury, it's even heavier?

---then you'd always qualify for tard pings. wouldn't that be nice? There'd be people around here asking, "did anyone ping Mrs. Don-o yet?"

I’m heavily into chicken liver just now. My odd and so far ineffective choice of substance abuse.

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Forget the chicken livers. (that's a sentence not often seen in print, eh? -- though not as rare as "i'm heavily into chicken livers just now", and if I heard anybody else say that one, I do think I'd run away...)

Well if I had money

I'd tell you what I'd do
I go downtown buy a Mercury or two
Crazy bout a Mercury
Lord I'm crazy bout a Mercury

--try to think of it as one of the first "heavy metal" songs.

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Got an IV iron infusion this morning though. Explains my periodic, fugitive flashes of brilliance, no doubt.

There were some of those? how could you tell? ;0
Were they lonesome fugitives like 'ol Merle?

--try to think of it as a rolling stone song before rolling stones were cool.

But if the fugitive "flashes" activity persist for more than four hours, you know what to do -- see a doctor --
or, maybe

"hey lady, could ya' lay off with the tap dancing on the dimmer switch"? jeez louise!

And if you just can't leave them chicken livers alone, there's two words you might possible consider -- finger & gloves.

There's no telling for sure where those livers have been. Could have been in one of those Arkansas chickens.

[353FMG]

It says that the information on “Dr. Jonathan V Wright and foot neuropathy” is a hoax.