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Post by ruth on Aug 24, 2008 15:06:10 GMT -5
i192.photobucket.com/albums/z157/ruthlyons_2007/morgellonsshrooms.jpgcheck out these mushrooms that are growing all over the corner of my carpet where i have my samples. putting them in a dish has made me crawl all over!!! could we be growing mushrooms in us? i have some pics of thick white lots of spores looks like a miniature cauliflower how do i resize so i can post the photo? i am so creeped out
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Post by felixwillford on Aug 24, 2008 20:38:49 GMT -5
Ruth's MushroomRuth, When I managed property, I have seen mushrooms grow in carpeting before. But it was after a flood! This room has not been wet has it? This would definately mean fungus is in your samples? and it spores off the shelf in the air settling on the rug.
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Post by ruth on Aug 24, 2008 21:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by felixwillford on Aug 24, 2008 21:37:14 GMT -5
Ruth's Carpet growth........This one, I have had this shape before out my nose with fibers attached. I have the photo on a different computer so I can't post .......... but that shape I think was "assumed" some sort of flatworm. Of course not a definate diagnosis.
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Post by ruth on Aug 26, 2008 11:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by ruth on Aug 26, 2008 11:56:35 GMT -5
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Post by ruth on Aug 26, 2008 12:30:29 GMT -5
Whole Network Most Recent TOP10 Gene Therapy Microbiology Nanomedicine Stem Cells « DMF: Sugar-Derived High... | Main | Reuteran:... »
Transgenic Mushrooms as Drug Biofactories Filed in archive Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics , Food and Agriculture , Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics by ruth on June 25, 2007 Genetically engineered mushrooms may serve as biofactories for the production of various drugs beneficial to humans.
Dr. Charles Peter Romaine and colleagues at Penn State have been able to develop a technique to genetically modify Agaricus bisporus -- the button variety of mushroom, which is the predominant edible species worldwide.
The transgenic mushrooms can then be used as factories for the production of therapeutic proteins, such as vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and hormones like insulin, or commercial enzymes, such as cellulase for biofuels.
According to Dr. Charles Peter Romaine, who holds the John B. Swayne Chair in spawn science and professor of plant pathology at Penn State:
"There has always been a recognized potential of the mushroom as being a choice platform for the mass production of commercially valuable proteins. Mushrooms could make the ideal vehicle for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals to treat a broad array of human illnesses. But nobody has been able to come up with a feasible way of doing that."
Right now medical treatment exists for about 500 diseases and genetic disorders, but thanks to the human genome project, before long, new drugs will be available for thousands of other diseases. We need a new way of mass-producing protein-based drugs, which is economical, safe, and fast. We believe mushrooms are going to be the platform of the future."
The researchers attached a gene that confers resistance to hygromycin (an antibiotic) to circular pieces of bacterial DNA called plasmids, which have the ability to multiply within a bacterium known as Agrobacterium - and produced the transgenic mushroom.
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Post by ruth on Aug 28, 2008 10:34:48 GMT -5
i put out these periodically. i wonder if they are basidium?
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Post by billie on Aug 29, 2008 10:55:33 GMT -5
oh my god! in my living room ceiling where the bathroom pipes are and we have had many leaks very many problems with water in bathroom. the owners before us had it patched and you could tell they had to replace some of the ceiling, we had a mushroom growing. sprouted right out of ceiliing. i could not believe my eyes. it was scary. my husband pulled it out and said it was just from the leaks we always had. i mean it was a full grown mushroom. i thought it was so bazaare, that i never even told anyone about it. i also have the cauliflower growths on me. also growths like you are showing in pictures. this is how my disease started, i guess 25 years ago. i had these weird growths on my thighs, at the time i also had cystic acne very bad. i went to dermatologist for acne and he saw the growths. did not know what it was, of course did biopsy and showed nothing. he never cared about it after that, you know went to doctors for 25 30 years and no one knows what is wrong with me. also, for sure 4 years ago my itching really started all over body and i did see a parasite crawliing in my skin, body near my ankle. so i do know it is a parasite that probably go atracted to my fungus skin. now we have every growth there is. that is part of my theory and i guess the mushroom growing in my house does have something to do with this horrible disease. now i for sure know we have the same mysterious disease.
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Post by ruth on Sept 4, 2008 14:53:57 GMT -5
the filaments growing off the shrooms match my filaments.
perhaps this is the fruit of what i grow.
it is right where i did some heavy samples with my scope.
it is matching other particles as well. i will try to put together something. the access to my pics have been compromised and they all show up as big red X's.
right now, i 90% think this is it.
God what a never ending nightmare. i didn't think i could get any more creeped out!
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Post by toni on Sept 5, 2008 8:24:37 GMT -5
Ruth, just incredible!!! Thank you for posting pics and talking about this. When I first joined the board, I'd posted also about the shrooms.
YES! I had them too coming right up out of the carpet! 2 mushrooms, overnight about 1 foot high. Scared me to death too.
In fact we were re-tiling the master bath/shower, so we used the guest room bathroom. Well...one day (during this time) of not using the master bath, Mr Toni yells down from upstairs to me, (come look at this!) I was freaked out! There, overnight right through the carpet in the bathroom were two really skinny stalked full grown shrooms! It was so weird.
Then we pulled up the carpeting, and the carpet pad, and there was black mold! We had no idea that shower piping in the floor had a leak. It was a very small area by the corner but, just enough to drip and feed it I suppose with the water.
Morgellonsmoe also posted about when she spat outside, mushrooms would grow in that area.
Ruth good question about the shrooms....I sure wonder too cause those grow right overnight.
I've got to look also and see what the spores look like.
Question, were the stalks tall and the caps of the shrooms small?
Wondering if your shrooms are the same as mine were. If I remember right, the "caps" were only about 1 and 1/2" diameter on this loooong skinny stem.
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Post by toni on Sept 5, 2008 8:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by ruth on Sept 5, 2008 11:01:44 GMT -5
crap, i lost the url to this. google images of chromista. i recognize all but one pic. googling fungi-like organisms...............brings up alot Introduction to the Chromista From microbes to giants. . . It may seem hard to believe that microscopic diatoms, with their delicate silica skeletons only forty millionths of a meter long, can be related to the giant kelps, which may grow as long as fifty meters, or that either one is related to the downy mildew that nearly destroyed the French wine industry. But they are related -- placed together in the great kingdom-level taxon Chromista. The name Chromista means "colored", and although some chromists, like mildews, are colorless, most are photosynthetic. Even though they are photosynthetic, chromists are not at all closely related to plants, or even to other algae. Unlike plants, the Chromista have chlorophyll c, and do not store their energy in the form of starch. Also, photosynthetic chromists often carry various pigments in addition to chlorophyll, which are not found in plants. It is these pigments which give them their characteristic brown or golden color. Photosynthetic chromists are some of the most important organisms in aquatic ecosystems. The cool and temperate coasts of continents are lined with kelp forests, where many commercially important fish and shellfish feed and reproduce, and diatoms are frequently the primary source of food for both marine and fresh-water organisms. In additional to their roles as producers for marine animals, chromists provide many products for industry. Alginates are viscous chemicals extracted from kelp; these are used in paper production, toothpaste, and in ice cream, where the alginate helps to improve texture and ensure uniform freezing and melting. Ancient chromists, like coccolithophorids, are responsible for deposits of limestone and other rock formations. The skeletons of dead chromists accumulate on the floor of lakes and oceans, where they may become thick deposits of silica or calcium carbonate. These deposits are useful for interpreting ancient climate, and in searching for oil. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click on the buttons below to learn more about the Chromista. You can navigate deeper into the Chromista groups by selecting Systematics!
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Post by ruth on Sept 5, 2008 11:04:45 GMT -5
toni, i was thinking the same thing. it appears my stuff
will grow with the right conditions.
i can't get a shroom box going right now.
thank you for doing this.
the spores that are very tiny and dry that come out of sacs.............freak me out!
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Post by toni on Sept 5, 2008 15:33:24 GMT -5
So much looks like our stuff, I sure agree. You know even "diatoms and things of that nature" too. You can click on the blue to the right to see what each looks like. www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/biomedia/text/txt_pictures.htmOn this link, click on the left, it's really got a zillion pics too. tinyurl.com/5jqk6zIt sure seems like we've got alittle of everything by the pictures.
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Post by ibzahp on Oct 15, 2008 0:19:04 GMT -5
In my last apartment I had thick fungus and filaments growing right out of the carpet, sameas what I shed. Totally freaked me out. This stuff is so tough, is there anywhere it cannot grow once it takes hold? I am not as science oriented as many of you but I greatly appreciate the opportunity to read this information so i can have a better understanding of what has happened to my body. Thank you!
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Post by ruth on Oct 15, 2008 11:22:57 GMT -5
hi ibzahp,
when my landlord checked out the leak............ there was none and was not worried at all!...... maybe about me :-Xcause the baking soda had melted down the shrooms so he just saw clumps of baking soda.
i have aerial mycelia growing in one of my shelfs. i've had a mat encompass my whole BR ceiling when i rented a little trailer. lots of heat, moisture and indirect light.
what appears with a symbiotic system is directly related to their immediate environment...........
looks to me like the slime (amber/red) mold and algaes' are sandwiched between the layers of the pieces of the lichen (scabs). it appears to spew out fluid and particles that harden into more of the lichen ...that houses everything (envision a geode or thunder egg) including chytrids and insects. the lichen have hooks that plant it into a substrate (me,us). when one part of it is threatened......another expresses.
i can't wait for phase II from morgellons research foundation!
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Post by ibzahp on Mar 24, 2009 18:21:46 GMT -5
I am so tired of being a habitat for multiple organisms. I feel like they are so voracious. Not only in my body, my dogs body and then in the environment at large. Its a constant battle to keep this stuff in some kind of check. Luckily I don't have a rug now. I still get cobwebs that aren't cobwebs and plenty of other "stuff"". Went to the doctor today and she doesn't know why I am still sick. After the course of doxicycline she prescribed some Zithromax . Since all my tests have come back "negative" she thinks I should make use of the opportunity of having good enough health and insurance to restart the interferon and ribivarin for my hep c. I just don't know. I would be so mad at myself if it sent the morgellons invasion into overdrive. I sure get fed up having to live this way and make decisions based on a lack of information ibzahp.
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Post by ruth on Mar 27, 2009 21:14:21 GMT -5
i of course........feel you. when i finally did see "it". i also see antibiotic resistant everywhere. so when we do meds that just weaken us without helping us at all... i believe the scientist working with MRF is probably trying to figure a way around the resistance problem. that must be what is taking so long. they got together in december to figure it out. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. people say just stop thinking about it HOW? ??
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