US gives OK to growing Human/Rice hybrid

[mandy]

The first ever plant/human hybrid is to be approved for commercial scale cultivation. According to reports, the US authorities have given preliminary approval for the crop to be grown on a 3,000 acre plot in Kansas.

The plant in question is rice, but it has been spliced with human DNA that will make it grow a protein found in both human breast milk and saliva. Ventria Bioscience, the California-based firm behind the crop, says the protein can be used to treat children with diarrhoea...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/rice_humans/

[jezebel]

I'll never eat rice again.  :blinkie:

[BellisimaJ.]

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I'll never eat rice again.  :blinkie:
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Kinda yucky.

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