Spinach fights the flu

This article comes from the febrary issue of discover - "Spinach fights the flu" This is quite interesting: Spinach may soon be packing health benefits Mom never dreamed of. Molecular Biologists at Philadelphia's INB:Biotechnologies are using the vegetable to make vaccines against anthrax, influenza, even plague. The new vaccines are cheaper to produce than traditional ones made from animales - and could be quicker to make. Until now, biologists had long assumed that using plants to grow human vaccines was impossible. But INB found a way to trick spinach ( along with Swiss chard and Petunias) into producing harmless bits and pieces of common human pathogens that cause diseases like flu and plague. When these chopped-up, deactivated pathogens are injected into mammals, the animals acquire immunity, just as if they had been infected with a virulent version. " now that's cool i mean in the past no one thought that vaccines could come from vegetables it would be great because vegetables are easier to produce better than using animals which may be at a disadvantages especially if they come from chickens and they happen to have the bird flu. Stay tune for more articles.