New GM Rice Helps Fight Diarrhea

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New GM Rice Helps Fight Diarrhea

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By expressing a protein found in human breast milk, this rice is claimed to be useful in controlling childhood diarrhea:

http://www.kansas.com/business/agricult ... 75515.html

The article doesn't say if it might eventually be developed for other purposes.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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