Life-saving bananas undergo human trials

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.
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/life-saving-bananas-undergo-human-trials/story-e6frfku9-1226956031146

High amounts of Vitamin A can be very dangerous! smiley: frown



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