Quote (2sexy4u @ Feb 10 2015 08:36pm)
From this source:
According to an article in World Medicine (September 22, 1971, pp 69-72; New Medical Journals, Clareville House, Oxendon St., London), scientists at the University of Geneva have made the startling discovery that biological substances entering directly into the blood stream may truly become a part of us and even a part of our genetic material. The article stated in part: “When Japanese bacteriologists discovered that bacteria of one species transferred their own highly specific antibiotic resistance to bacteria of an entirely different species, they seemed to hit on a unique if not startling phenomenon. Dr. Maurice Stroun and Dr. Pilippe Anker, with colleagues in the Department of Plant Physiology at the University of Geneva, have now accumulated a wealth of evidence that the transfer of genetic information is not confined to bacteria but also can occur between bacteria and higher plants and animals.”
Would be interesting to dig a bit more about that.
It's interesting, but currently we have no reason to suspect it's true. It's been known for a very long time that bacteria can undergo horizontal gene transfer and the mechanism is fairly well understood, as far as these things go, but there's no reason to assume it can happen between people.