"good news, soon you too can have a tongue as long as one of your legs"
Posted on 10/10/2011 6:25:31 PM PDT by decimon
A new preclinical study is raising hope of a potential cure for peanut and other food allergies, having found a way to turn off a body’s life-threatening allergic response to peanuts.
The study by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine achieved peanut tolerance by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroducing them to the body — tricking the immune system into thinking the proteins pose no threat.
The approach, previously used to target autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, was used for the first time, successfully, to target allergic diseases, researchers said.
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You got peanut butter in my blood.
You got blood on my peanut butter.
Two great tastes in one!
(At least for vampires)
"good news, soon you too can have a tongue as long as one of your legs"
We have been eatings nuts and berries since before we took our first swing out of the tree. A genetic predisposition to anaphalactic shock induced by ground nuts should doom that gene carrier to extinction, so the question isn’t how do we switch it off. The real question is how it got turned on in the first place, and in the last 25 years or so.
That tongue should be hanging in a deli.
AHHH ....just in time
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