Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
by graypegg on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:12PM
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… non-GMO? How do you manage that? Is a culture considered non-GMO as long as you’re just pipetting colonies around and hoping for the them to be stressed the right way to evolve something useful?
Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
by kurthr on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:32PM
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Well, otherwise just about every plant and animal we use in agriculture would be GMO for the last 1000 years.
Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
by ISL on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:25AM
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Yep.
Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
by bbojan on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:52AM
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Any organism we bred is genetically modified by definition. That's why "transgenic" is a much more accurate term that we should be using.
Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people
by menacingly on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:53AM
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I think this is a failure to recognize the distinction between having modified genetics, and having been genetically modified.
>BIO-CAT, Inc. -- a Virginia-based biotech company specializing in breakthrough enzyme product development -- has announced a global partnership with Kerry, the Taste & Nutrition company and their BIO-CAT Microbials, LLC probiotic products division. Effective June 2021, Kerry will lead the sales, marketing, and distribution of BIO-CAT's proprietary probiotic strain, OPTI-BIOME MB40®.
>OPTI-BIOME MB40® (Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264) is a non-GMO, highly-stable probiotic strain that the company says is an ideal ingredient for a wide array of dietary supplements and other related uses.
Source: https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bio-cat-announces-...