Transgenic rice lowers blood pressure of hypertensive rats
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 08:20
in Health & Medicine
In the future, taking your blood pressure medication could be as simple as eating a spoonful of rice. This 'treatment' could also have fewer side effects than current blood pressure medicines. As a first step, researchers have made transgenic rice that contains several anti-hypertensive peptides. When given to hypertensive rats, the rice lowered their blood pressure.