Food Industry Ramifications of the FDA Cheerios Warning Letter

Sarah Sunday writes this excellent legal opinion explaining the background and ramifications of the FDA's warning letter to the makers of Cheerios, Is FDA Warning Letter An Ominous Signal To Food Industry? This is all about the FDA objecting to the statement that Cheerios can lower cholesterol levels. In a nutshell, she says:

"FDA's Warning Letter is a slap on the wrist in terms of the potential regulatory consequences. However, the letter could have a significant legitimizing effect on the pending California lawsuit, and in that way, could have costly implications for both General Mills and the food industry as a whole."

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The HappyHour Gene - Implications for drinkers

This is an interesting read. University of California, San Francisco scientists have discovered the 'HappyHour' gene, a newly identified gene that makes fruit flies sensitive to booze. This means that drugs that mimic the effects of the gene may offer a new treatment against alcohol abuse. In this NewScientist article, 'Happyhour' gene may help put boozers off their drink, folks say, "People who are very sensitive to alcohol tend to drink less – that's the person who gets drunk on one glass of wine," and "The person who can drink everybody under the table – that's the person who is more likely to become an alcoholic." "Theoretically, a medication that increases the sensitivity to alcohol – that you need to drink less of to get an effect – might be protective," Heberlein says. Read Heberlein's findings in, Cell (DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.04.018) - or the Research Abstract. 

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HIV Treatment Goes Bionic

Bionic man. Bionic woman. Now there's bionic assassins to treat HIV. Researchers have have engineered and tested a killer T-cell receptor that is able to recognize all of the different disguises that HIV is known to have used to evade detection. The researchers attached this receptor to the killer T-cells to create genetically engineered "bionic assassins" able to destroy HIV-infected cells in culture. For the full story, read this EurekAlert, "HIV's disguises no match for 'bionic assassins' - Implications for developing new treatments for AIDS." 

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