Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pentagon research project called "Insect Allies." Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project involves using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect insects with modified viruses that could help make America's crops more resilient. If a cornfield were hit by an unexpected drought or suddenly exposed to a pathogen, for example, Insect Allies might deploy an army of aphids carrying a genetically modified virus to slow the corn plant's growth rate.
According to the DARPA website, these "targeted therapies" could take effect in a single growing season, potentially protecting the American crop system from food security threats like disease, flooding, frost and even "threats introduced by state or non-state actors.
… Insect Allies, is less concerned. "Anytime you're developing a new and revolutionary technology, there is that potential for [both offensive and defensive] capability," Bextine told The Washington Post. "But that is not what we are doing. We are delivering positive traits to plants… We want to make sure we ensure food security, because food security is national security in our eyes."
Insect Allies is still in the early stages of development, and at least four U.S. colleges (Boyce Thompson Institute, Penn State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin)have received funding to carry out research. Bextine told The Washington Post that the project recently achieved its first milestone — testing whether an aphid could infect a stalk of corn with a designer virus that caused fluorescence. According to the Washington Post, "the corn glowed."
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I’m back from the mammogram. “Everything is the same, come back in a year.”
Now I need to plan for Cub Scouts.
What is MeWe?
LOL! Yep is it cold.
Who belled the WHAT???
w00t!
You need to learn them a lesson. When I had my colonoscopy they said, “It all looks fine. You can come back in 10 years.”
If it’s good, they don’t need to keep asking for money every year to tell them it’s good.
mewe.com is the non-invasive social networking site that people are turning to because of the content control policies at FB.
mewe doesn’t have content review issues like FB.
mewe doesn’t put Sponsored content into your feed like FB.
mewe doesn’t analyze your roster of connections for shared contacts, groups, or anything else.
mewe doesn’t “suggest” new contacts
...
On mewe, everything relies on intentional actions you take. You don’t connect unless you decide to and the other party says OK.
It’s a while lot more like real life, where you find people, and they find you, on purpose; there’s not a host of hidden algorithms chugging away to generate lists for you like FB’s “People you kay know”
Go take a look.
I wish you luck on that. I’m excited for you!
I thought I would delete some photos on FB. Nope. Zuckerflake won’t let me do it. I’m on MeWe, but I have a slight problem with understanding how to navigate. I hope I get it figured out soon and can coax my family over there so we can all cancel our FB accounts and get away from that liberal sicko.
I’m not sure that would be the best policy if I’m trying to avoid dying of cancer.
I was under the false impression that today was the national holiday celebrating my birthday that they named after someone else. Then I looked at a calendar.
It’s next Monday - the holiday that is. But by then my birthday will be long gone. On the bright side, sort of, we got mail which included a birthday card.
And the phone bill which was not as uplifting.
Thanks. I’ll be excited on the way home tomorrow.
I rode a train to North Carolina from Baltimore a while back.
The military had something to do with it.
FB once wouldn’t let me log on until I answered security questions from my friends list. It is pure evil like the google.
Thank you so much for posting!
Exactly why I use DuckDuckGo for my search engine. No tracking cookies and they give you facts, not opinions on what you're looking for.
Dat floof looks like, “Dis a Monday? Dis feel like a Monday. Dis look like a Monday. Dis gotta be a Monday.”
Me too.
Good morning. I have a pic to send you, but I was waiting for you to post something so I would know you were awake.
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