Hey, it's Marco! Scientists today are working not only on the development of new vaccines against diseases that still make people sick, but also on finding unique ways of getting those vaccines into people. The technique has been dubbed "farming." Rather than manipulating plants to make a firmer tomato or a sweeter peach, "farmers" insert genes that instruct a plant to manufacture pharmaceutical compounds. In the future they envisage, flu shots will be replaced by bananas. Prozac, anyone? Try this corn puff. Farmers dream that all drugs will ultimately be delivered in snacks. In theory, just about any drug can be engineered in a kernel of corn or a grain of rice, or better yet, in that ice cold beer you're drinking.
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Vaccinated bananas??
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