Orange corn holds promise for reducing blindness, child death

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

Decreasing or increasing the function of a newly discovered gene in corn may increase vitamin A content and have significant implications for reducing childhood blindness and mortality rates, according to a Purdue University-led study.

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