September 16, 2021 Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside via Paul Header

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For some reason, a group of scientists and the National Science Foundation, which is funding their research, feel it would be wise to make lettuce and spinach express proteins from pathogens by giving these plants the mRNA blueprints to work with. The idea is that people will eat these plants and this will induce an immune response that will protect them from a targeted disease. A report about this research from the University of California can be viewed at this link.