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Tall, skinny, RNAi decaf, to go

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@imperial.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030619-01

Decaffeinated coffee is increasingly popular because it lacks the stimulatory effects of caffeine that can trigger palpitations, increased blood pressure, and insomnia. Currently, coffee is decaffeinated by an expensive industrial process that also alters the flavor and quality of the finished product. In a Brief Communication in the June 19 Nature, Shinjiro Ogita and colleagues at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology show that RNA interference (RNAi) can be used to produce decaffeinated coffee plants (Nature, 423:823, June 19, 2003).


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