Tag: Tomatoes
US Imports from Xinjiang Skyrocket!…Is there Forced Labor in China?
US Crackdown on Forced Labor in China Risks Further Supply Chaos
“This is how people end up in concentration camps.”
A controversy is raging among instructors in a national preschool music education program: should the Russian folk song that is traditionally part of April’s curriculum be taught this year? For your reference, “Little Birch Tree” is performed here by the Seattle Girls Choir in times slightly less rife with hatred for Russia.
Little Birch Tree — Will It Fall To Russiaphobic Axe?
GMO tomato as edible COVID vaccine? Mexican scientists work to make it a reality
GMO tomato as edible COVID vaccine? Mexican scientists work to make it a reality
While large companies and public sector consortiums in the United States, Canada, China and Europe are running at full speed to develop a vaccine grown in genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants, a research group at a Mexican university is working toward the same objective, but with a different and innovative strategy. They are using bioinformatics and computational genetic engineering to identify candidate antigens for a vaccine that can be expressed in tomato plants. Eating the fruit from these plants would then confer immunity against COVID-19.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 