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Can tomatoes carry the cure for Alzheimer's?
August 6th, 2008
The humble tomato could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from Digital Biotech Inc. and the Department of Biological Science at Wonkwang University. Although their research (1), just published online in Springer's journal Biotechnology Letters, is still in the early stages, it is a promising first step towards finding an edible vaccine against the neurodegenerative disease. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and it progresses over a long period of time. It is thought to be caused by the...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-08-06)
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