Juicy red tomatoes are not just pleasing to the eyes and our taste buds, a team of scientists in Brazil and Ireland are now trying bioengineering to use tomatoes for more.
A latest research paper has discussed the potential of tomatoes as a biofactory to produce capsaicinoids. You probably know that capsaicinoids are found abundantly in capsicum and chilli peppers and lend spiciness to cuisines. What’s interesting is that capsaicinoids are used for manufacturing pain-killers, specifically for arthritis patients and have little or no side effects. But growing peppers requires a lot of effort.
On the other hand, tomatoes are not only comparatively easier to grow but also have the model organism and genes that can be manipulated easily to grow capsaicinoids.
This finding has potential industrial and pharmaceutical application so it is a big thing in the making. Read what Ryan F. Mandelbaum has reported on this.
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Comments (6)
So therefore every picture of an elephant is a travesty?
Please. I'm all for animal rights, but this is not the place. This is both clever and hilarious.
This is a posting a pic of an abused victim and then making fun of the victim, not funny or clever.
Poor thing.
comment behaveour,clean language and keeping this place sooooo positive.
But they are absolutely silent when it comes to their posters animal torture fetish.
Does words really hurt more than suffering animals??
Strange ways to prioritise here.
Style over substance when it fits the moderators i guess.
You find pictures of animals in distress "hilarious"?
Quite a strange sense of humor you got there.
I giggled. So freakin' sue me.
Because that was an animal in captivity with an implied emotional state based on text printed over it.
How does anyone here even know if this elephant is in fact in captivity? Oh you saw some high walls and a gate, that 's brilliant. Those are only used for captivity in Asia, or so I've heard.
As for it being actually depressed, it's only implied by the text, we actually know NOTHING about that context of this photograph.
Craig, we are all aware of the powerful context of a concentration camp, whereas here, you just made an assumption about what's happening. So no, they are not alike. You just compared horrific cruelty with something that only has implied context.
I am a huge elephant fan and I know they can become legitimately depressed, so I don't find this image funny, but some of you are blowing this image way out of proportion.
If you take a photo of someone waiting for a bus and staring at their feet, you could easily slap something about depression over it. But it in no way means that person is ACTUALLY depressed, especially if it's intended as a joke.
and this joke is irrelephant, it was made long ago lol.
http://www.snorgtees.com/anything-unrelated-elephants