“Scientists in China have used gene editing technology to create a new tomato variety that smells like buttered popcorn,” reports News of the Weird. “The project was conceived to address the problem of tomatoes losing some aroma and flavor during transport and storage. Peng Zheng, an author of the study, compared the alteration to creating varieties of fragrant rice.”
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