Tomatoes to contain vaccines for HIV and HBV

Now tomatoes can be put to even better use as researchers have planned to use tomatoes to deliver HIV and HBV vaccines. I would call that superbly innovative. They have genetically modified the tomato to contain fragments of HIV protein coat genes, so when these tomatoes are eaten, a person also takes up the protein coats of the viruses which can then serve as antibodies.

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