Turning Food into Medicine
A group of researchers in Japan are moving toward human testing of a genetically modified rice crop designed to treat allergies to cedar pollen. According to the New Scientist, the rice has been modified to include seven proteins common in cedar pollen.
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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The future of cigarettes?
I don't usually think of Wired as a source of information for the Health Horizons blog, but this recent headline caught my eye: The Cigarette of the Future: All the Cancer, None of the Nicotine." The article considers the evolution of tobacco as envisioned by the FDA's former director of the Office of Tobacco Programs, Mitch Zeller.
- Vivian Distler's blog
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