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The Japanese microbiologists headed by Tomonori Nochi from university of Tokyo created vaccine against cholera from genetically modified rice. This vaccine have already been successfully tested on mice.
Microbiologists took a genetic material from Vibrio cholerae bacterium, and add it to DNA of rice of two kinds: normal (Kitaake) and dwarfish (Hosetsu).
Plants reacted to intervention and created toxins on the basis of which scientists made a powder, which, they dissolved in water and gave to mice.
As a result experts received a solution which became that vaccine against cholera which does not demand a syringe.
In this experiment rice have a number of advantages. First, the vaccine was made on the basis of an edible plant; therefore it is safe and inexpensive in manufacture. Second, rice is a basic element of food for many developing countries.