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...astonished by the story about the vaccine made from freeze-dried tomato juice that comes from fruit carrying a gene from a strain of the E. coli bacterium. This vaccine can fight off diarrheal diseases. I didn't realize such a thing was possible. I'm glad to know there are scientists trying to find better ways to combat disease in impoverished Third World countries. MARIA MAMAH Union Springs...
...sauce, are served with beansprouts, cucumber and shredded carrots with leaves of round lettuce which one can fashion into a sloppy natural wrap. Taquitos are crisply fried, filled with chicken and served with mammoth scoops of guacamole, sour cream and salsa. The salsa, in fact, also doubles as the tomato topping for the bruschetta: as any good factory owner will tell you, consolidation on economies of scale is an easy way to increase profitability...
...foam-rubber microphone, a stealth surfboard, a genetically modified tomato--among this year's crop of fresh new ideas, here are some of our favorites
Charles Arntzen is convinced that the reddish, powdery substance he holds in his hand will make the world a safer place. Arntzen, an Arizona State University biologist, has been working for nearly five years to create what is basically freeze-dried tomato juice--but not from any ordinary tomatoes. This fruit (yes, tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables) carries a gene from a strain of the E. coli bacterium. Some strains of E. coli can cause violent diarrhea and death. Swigged down in reconstituted juice, however, a protein made by the E. coli gene should act as a vaccine, priming...
...began thinking about using plants instead of needles, creating vaccines that would be easy to grow locally in, say, Vietnam or Bangladesh. He focused on diarrhea, because, says Arntzen, "diarrheal diseases kill at least 2 million people in the world every year, most of them children." And he chose tomatoes because greenhouse-grown tomatoes can't easily pass their altered genes to other crops and because tomato-processing equipment is relatively cheap. It would be easier still just to take whole tomatoes and eat them, but that could be a disaster, says Arntzen. Individual tomatoes come in different sizes with...