📄 Tomatoes offer affordable source of Parkinson’s disease drug

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-10 Thu 13:30
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Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson’s disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world’s essential medicines. The development of the genetically modified (GM) tomato has implications for developing nations where access to pharmaceutical drugs…

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