Re: Bob Grant’s article about worm therapy for autoimmune disease:1 A minireview by Hanada et al., (Biol. Chem, 391:1365-70, 2010) of the RANKL/RANK system involving T-cell membrane protein ligands and ligand targets in various tissues, including specific neural and astroglial terrains in the brain, may provide additional support to the findings that inflammatory responses could play a role in autism.
Mel Winestock
ABD Laboratories
Oceanside, CA
2 In South Africa, where the free market adoption of genetically modified (GM) maize has risen to about 80 percent of the total hectarage grown, and even more for cotton, the crops were adopted enthusiastically precisely because they gave better yields, benefitting both the farmer and the consumer. The cost of seed for commercial growers is less of a constraint to profit than the extent of loss. And here, no one is worrying about the spread of traits, because everyone is growing.
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