Originally Posted by olsen

"...Plants get their characteristic pigmentation from chloroplasts, tiny organelles in each cell that carry out photosynthesis. The chloroplasts in these specimens have been reprogrammed to churn out custom-engineered proteins with amazing properties. Some have rendered rodents immune to malaria, cholera, polio, and plague. Others have protected dogs from allergic reactions to blood-clotting proteins that can trigger fatal anaphylactic shock in hemophiliacs who need them. Still others have reversed Type I diabetes in mice, and cleared brain tissue of the amyloid plaques that are a central feature of Alzheimer’s Disease—first scrubbing the brains of living mice that took the agent orally, then doing the same in the postmortem human brains of deceased AD patients..."

http://thepenngazette.com/the-lettuce-cure/