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Bring Home the Biotech Bacon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the probably-tastes-like-cardboard dept.

Wired is reporting that researchers may have found the key to "heart friendly bacon." From the article: "Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease. Researchers hope they can improve the technique in pork and do the same in chickens and cows. In the process, they also want to better understand human disease."

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  1. Doh ! by sane? · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can just imagine all those marketeers and press people who were planning to use Omega-3 as a marketing tool when they read this recent article.

    As they say in the marketing rulebook: Timing is everything

  2. the kind believed to stave off heart disease by Threni · · Score: 5, Informative

    > omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease.

    Er...no it's not:

    http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1738 599,00.html