Peanut

Rresearchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to retrain the immune system to ignore allergens by developing a nasal spray that vaccinates against peanut allergies, with promising results in mouse tests.

A new four-year follow-up study on the efficacy of a probiotic-based peanut allergy cure has revealed the majority of the original successful participants still displaying tolerance to peanuts, paving the way for the final phase of trials to bring the treatment to the public.

Soon you may no longer have to choose between better-tasting and better-for-you. Scientists have developed a method of boosting the antioxidant levels of milk chocolate up to those of its dark counterpart, while also putting a waste product to new use.​

In western cultures, peanut allergies are the leading cause of food-related anaphylaxis death. Needless to say, therefore, people with such allergies need to be protected against exposure to the nuts – and a skin patch may help provide that protection.​

Peanut shells are generally considered to be a worthless agricultural byproduct. That could be about to change, however, as scientists have developed an air-purifying filter that utilizes the shells.​

Researchers at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, have shown that a probiotic treatment involving Lactobacillus rhamnosus, has given children with peanut allergies the ability to safely eat peanuts.

Wade Yang from the University of Florida is taking a different approach to allow those with allergies to eat peanuts. Rather than altering the body's response to peanut allergens, he is altering the peanuts themselves.

Researchers have managed to rapidly turn off the allergic response to peanuts in mice by tricking the immune system into thinking the nut proteins aren't a threat.

The Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology is taking an interesting alternative approach to the green revival interest in natural dyes: they're experimenting with the extraction of pigments from agricultural waste.

In a discovery that could have implications for the millions of food allergy sufferers worldwide, researchers have discovered a way to turn off the immune system’s allergic reaction to certain proteins in mice.

Peanut allergies are very common - roughly one in every 200 children will suffer from a reaction, and peanuts are the leading cause of food-related deaths. So it's good to hear that researchers may have discovered a cure for peanut allergies.