{"id":50860,"date":"2025-09-29T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50860\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:07:08","slug":"the-first-human-trial-of-nutrient-rich-gene-edited-tomatoes-is-underway-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50860\/","title":{"rendered":"The first human trial of nutrient-rich gene-edited tomatoes is underway in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin D to take part in the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quadram.ac.uk\/vital-d\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ViTaL-D Study<\/a>, where some participants will eat soup containing tomatoes that have been genetically altered with added nutrients to see if their health improves.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the John Innes Centre turned off a molecule in the tomatoes being used in the trial, so when the fruit is placed under light vitamin D forms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It follows the full introduction of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukdsi\/2025\/9780348269123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Precision Breeding Act<\/a>\u00a0in England in May, which means that scientists and farmers can now make and sell fruits and vegetables that have been gene-edited.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>The ViTaL-D Study will test whether those who eat the gene-edited tomatoes have higher levels of vitamin D in their blood and compare the levels to supplements.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin D is important for the immune system to fight infection, for strong teeth, bones, muscles, and to help reduce the risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy4jnz987lwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin D to take part in the\u00a0ViTaL-D&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[405,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-50860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}