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Biotech Firm Raises Furor With Rice Plan


May 14, 6:37 PM (ET)

By PAUL ELIAS 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A tiny biosciences company is developing a promising drug to fight diarrhea, a scourge among babies in the developing world, but it has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies because it grows the experimental drug in rice genetically engineered with a human gene...............................



..............Ventria's rice produces two human proteins found in mother's milk, saliva and tears, which help people hydrate and lessen the severity and duration of diarrhea attacks, a top killer of children in developing countries.



Sent without comment. Toby Gish RN, IBCLC (Haifa, Israel) Private Practice

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