Biotech Researcher Finds Medical Pot Laced With Feces

[Sam_Skunkman]

It does not say,
When she found it. Which variety, by which grower, sold at where? What was the PPM?
But I am not surprised at all.
Typical press, it is more about nothing specific, just bull about her and company.
No wonder she found it, she is an expert at bull___, maybe even from her own hands?
Did she touch the samples by any chance?
She certainly has no understanding of Cannabis breeding.

As for terpene analysis and DNA analysis correlated to better understand breeding for terpenes, it will come but it is still far away.
It will take thousands if not millions of DNA analysis to understand it all. That will take years to just build the database.
I am sure many are interested, some even busy, like Colorado CU and Medical Genomics, as well as others.
-SamS

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

DNA Analysis and Medicinal Genomics

DNA Analysis and Medicinal Genomics

It does not say,
When she found it. Which variety, by which grower, sold at where? What was the PPM?
But I am not surprised at all.
Typical press, it is more about nothing specific, just bull about her and company.
No wonder she found it, she is an expert at bull___, maybe even from her own hands?
Did she touch the samples by any chance?
She certainly has no understanding of Cannabis breeding.

As for terpene analysis and DNA analysis correlated to better understand breeding for terpenes, it will come but it is still far away.
It will take thousands if not millions of DNA analysis to understand it all. That will take years to just build the database.
I am sure many are interested, some even busy, like Colorado CU and Medical Genomics, as well as others.
-SamS

You are right it will take several years to assimilate the database. With next-gen sequencing getting seemingly cheaper by the day , we might be closer than you think. I say this because I personally know and have worked with the people at CU Boulder. At the moment they are more focused on the morphology genes, but as soon as some of us in the industry come in with adequate funding they can begin to explore some of the more medicinal properties of the plant. (Currently I believe it cost them around $40 to sequence a cannabis genome, imagine when that cost gets to $1) Just look at the lady in this article, she has been going around collecting samples on her own and having them sequenced. A few people with some real money jump into a project like this and we can make leaps and bounds in a relatively short amount of time! Once the genome, which isn't large at all (800MB, 10 chromosomes), is mapped; we shall enter into the golden age of cannabis breeding and cultivation. Not that corporate greed won't have corrupted it by then, but that argument I'm sure is meant for a different time and place

From what I have read recently, there are some bio hackers that have already successfully figured out the gene sequence for the proteins in the enzymatic pathway responsible for producing CBD and are already en route to producing cannabinoids via fungal vector rather than go the traditional plant route at all! Which I'm sure will be popular amongst hippies and stoners -said no one ever!

I'm glad you mentioned Medicinal Genomics... great company, I like what they are doing not only from a research stand point with the plant, but as far as the screening of the genome of children with Dravet's syndrome to see if they can find a correlated SNP or other mutation/gene that will provide a positive marker for effective CBD therapy. This will be a game changer for people with children effected by this disease

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

You are right it will take several years to assimilate the database. With next-gen sequencing getting seemingly cheaper by the day , we might be closer than you think. I say this because I personally know and have worked with the people at CU Boulder. At the moment they are more focused on the morphology genes, but as soon as some of us in the industry come in with adequate funding they can begin to explore some of the more medicinal properties of the plant. (Currently I believe it cost them around $40 to sequence a cannabis genome, imagine when that cost gets to $1) Just look at the lady in this article, she has been going around collecting samples on her own and having them sequenced. A few people with some real money jump into a project like this and we can make leaps and bounds in a relatively short amount of time! Once the genome, which isn't large at all (800MB, 10 chromosomes), is mapped; we shall enter into the golden age of cannabis breeding and cultivation. Not that corporate greed won't have corrupted it by then, but that argument I'm sure is meant for a different time and place

From what I have read recently, there are some bio hackers that have already successfully figured out the gene sequence for the proteins in the enzymatic pathway responsible for producing CBD and are already en route to producing cannabinoids via fungal vector rather than go the traditional plant route at all! Which I'm sure will be popular amongst hippies and stoners -said no one ever!

I'm glad you mentioned Medicinal Genomics... great company, I like what they are doing not only from a research stand point with the plant, but as far as the screening of the genome of children with Dravet's syndrome to see if they can find a correlated SNP or other mutation/gene that will provide a positive marker for effective CBD therapy. This will be a game changer for people with children effected by this disease

Doesn't Cannabis have a pair of 10 chromosomes = 20? Diploid, having a chromosome complement of 2n=20.
That and in my discussions with Medical Genomics they said the Cannabis geneome is much bigger then 800MB and they have already mapped several different varieties, as has Page et al up in Toronto. I thought Nolan Kane's work was way behind that?

As for:
"gene sequence for the proteins in the enzymatic pathway responsible for producing CBD and are already en route to producing cannabinoids via fungal vector rather than go the traditional plant route at all!"

Good the sooner the better, I am tired of hippy breeders adding CBD back into the drug genepool, it is not good in the long run. Let them grow it cheap in vats and sell it to anyone that gets benefits. But do not add it back to the Drug gene pool!!!!
I think it is a big mistake. They will be bred with and used to make drug varieties, for sure.
-SamS

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

Nolan and Daniella's work is way behind Medicinal Genomics, you are absolutely right... and my apologies I meant 10 pairs of chromosomes, 10 homologous pairs... As for the total genome size. A paper I found on pub med citing a purple kush sequence, which i believe is rather old now, reported an estimated 820 MB pairs (wikipedia says the same thing, although that is not always reliable either)? If medicinal genomics thinks otherwise, I would tend to side with their line of thinking, they are at the forefront of this. I looked at their web site but didn't find the total genome size. I know they have reported doing over 10 GB of LA Confidential and 131GB of sequencing on Chemdawg, but I thought this was referring to the fact that they were sequencing several phenotypic varieties of those same strains. I say this because they have back crossed the LA 3 times according to the website. This would make for a great way to isolate specific phenotypes in relation to a very similar genome backdrop that they have essentially built for themselves.

I am respectfully curious why you don't want the CBD to be bred "back" into the plant? Do you not like CBD high meds or do you believe they have some sort of negative influence on an already quality medicinal strains growth?

 

[Agaricus]

I just find it funny people make such a big deal out of a little contaminants on pot that is intended to be smoked when there is much worse on your food.

The vast majority of produce at the grocery store is laced with pesticed and herbicide residues that cannot be washed off, even when all the skin is removed an uncomfortable amount of chemical residues still remain. Not to mention all of the artifical chemical preservatives, colorings, etc that is used in packaged food and no one one is really concerned about that.

A brief loopback. Here's what's allowed in food in the U.S.

http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancereg...mation/sanitationtransportation/ucm056174.htm

I thought it was kind of interesting.

Carry on.

 

[trichrider]

sounds as if she is putting the scare out to promote her business. typical.