A "No More Tears" Onion?
The terrifying-sounding science of “gene silencing”—using RNA interference to shut down specific genes—may be bearing some serious fruit if a recent report by ScienceDaily is to be believed.
By tampering with powers hitherto reserved for YHWH and switching off the genes that give onions their sulfur-based eye-watering power, a Dr. Colin Eady of New Zealand and his collaborators in Japan have whipped up what appears to be a tear-proof onion.
Would you like to learn more about this story? Well, quoth ScienceDaily, in my favorite reference to a fictional-sounding magazine in quite some time: “Further information is available in the International onion trade journal Onion World.”
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I think GM food gene sliencing it a bit like beasteality Dr Colin Eady aplication on ERMA website for altering spring oinios garlic leeks and tobaco it enoughf to make me longer wont to eat these foods I shall no loger by them its perverted to muck about with our food suply like this. Perhaps he should change his name Dr Frankenstein .I shall also tell everybody I know not to by the foods that are been alted with e coli and antibiotics