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Jun 16 14 1:31 PM
IT'S the genetically modified fruit from Australia that could turn East African nations into life-saving banana republics. QUEENSLAND University of Technology (QUT) researchers have engineered bananas grown in far north Queensland to increase the levels of beta-carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the body. The goal, they say, is to stop thousands of children in Uganda and the surrounding countries from going blind and dying from vitamin A deficiency. And now they've successfully bent the banana genome, it's being tested on humans for the first time.
IT'S the genetically modified fruit from Australia that could turn East African nations into life-saving banana republics.
QUEENSLAND University of Technology (QUT) researchers have engineered bananas grown in far north Queensland to increase the levels of beta-carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the body.
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