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What sounds like a science fiction movie is actually real life for the unlucky people who have contracted the disease which leaves painful sores all over the body. The sores ooze blue fibers, white threads and little black specks of sand-like material.

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One Dallas paper calls it a plague plague

Thousands attempting to live with this illness are being told "it's all in your heads" by a medical community that has no idea what the causation is.

Moving on from resistance to pests, scientists were able to pinpoint and clone several genes
that made plants resistant to bacterial, viral, and fungal infections...

Thanks to recent advances in the genetic engineering, or bioengineering, of plants, farmers are now beginning to have at their disposal crop seeds that are genetically endowed not only to
resist damage from insects but also to be resistant to herbicides...

an additional gene that scientists have inserted in the seeds' genetic material, or genome.
The gene, which originated in bacteria and is not found naturally in plants, encodes a toxic protein
that kills two of the prime predators of cotton plants...

Not content with just making crops resistant to pests and weeds, plant bioengineers are
beginning to cut and paste genes to make crop plants more salt tolerant or drought tolerant..."