To: vetvetdoug; All
http://www.plos.orgI've noticed this website just recently. Does anyone have any feedback with respect to their political orientation?
Has any one read about F. O. Bastian and his Spiroplasma hypothesis for TSEs at PubMed? Enter Bastian FO, and spiroplasma into PubMed
4 posted on
04/16/2006 11:44:56 PM PDT by
neverdem
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To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..
6 posted on
04/16/2006 11:53:09 PM PDT by
neverdem
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To: neverdem
I just read the abstracts (all I have access to). "...99% nucleotide sequence homology" sounds like a pretty solid match to me, especially as it was only obtained with TSE infected brain tissue, and from humans, deer, and sheep, but absent in normal age matched brain tissue.
It appears the author may be on to something.
In another abstract, it is postulated that the Spiroplasma bacterium and the prion (if I am reading it correctly) act as the two components of a binary infection mechanism, with the one getting the other into the cell to cause infection.
8 posted on
04/17/2006 12:26:54 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
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To: neverdem
9 posted on
04/17/2006 12:34:51 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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