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This is what I like about modern science. Its ability to tackle the really pressing issues of the day.
Scientists, using a technique know as ‘gene-silencing’ (sounds more like an organized crime techniqe to me, but what the hell do I know) to prevent the onion from producing tear-causing enzymes. While impressive, the discovery is still in a prototype phase and won’t be in kitchens for at least a decade.
In related news, efforts to ‘even-out’ the notoriously bi-polar rutabega has hit another roadblock.
Photo by Fir0002.
February 1st, 2008 by graeme |
Is there anything us Kiwis can’t do?
This is the same thing as seedless watermelons.
Sure, thousands of people are dying everyday, needlessly, from AIDS and cancer, but this? Tears while cutting onion, an activity that takes mere mintues?
That has to stop.