by Frank Vinluan, NCBiotech Writer May 12, 2021 .
ELIZABETH CITY – Children who are allergic to peanuts learn that avoidance is the only way to ensure that even a trace amount of the problem legume doesn’t trigger a dangerous reaction that sends them to the hospital. As an extra precaution, parents closely read ingredient labels and restaurant menus while schools enforce bans of peanut snacks and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Removing peanuts and peanut products from kitchens and lunchrooms does help avoid the risk of an allergic reaction. But agricultural startup IngateyGen is researching an alternative: removing the allergens from peanuts. The Elizabeth City-based company is gearing up to test how CRISPR gene-editing technology can be used to produce peanuts that don’t have the most problematic allergens. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded IngateyGen a nearly $1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to support that research.
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