Although tobacco doesn’t have a reputation of being beneficial to health, a team of European researchers has reported breeding a genetically modified tobacco plant with medicines for many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including type 1 diabetes.

On Monday Italian researchers said a faulty immune reaction may be responsible for the development of epilepsy.

Background: Apolipoprotein C-III (apo C-III) is a marker of cardiovascular disease risk associated with triglyceride (TG)-rich lipoproteins. The T-455C polymorphism in the insulin-responsive element of the APOC3 gene influences TG and apo C-III concentrations.

The interleukin-1 cluster on human chromosome 2q12-2q14 harbors various promising candidate genes for asthma and other inflammatory diseases. We conducted a systematic association study with single- nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in candidate genes situated in this cluster.