Using the tools of biotechnology, plant geneticists are introducing proteins into plants that can be used to fight human viruses.
Edible vaccines are also in the works for other deadly diseases like cholera and tuberculosis.
Korban hopes to have perfected his tomato treatment for human consumption by 2005. But don t look for it in the local supermarket. It will be a prescription tomato. The risk Aversion to Frankenfood could cause vaccines to wither on the vine. But it s still too early to say if the research will pan out.