title: New foods for thought.
abstract: Recent findings show that genetic material in plant foods may survive digestion, circulate through our bodies and modulate our gene expression. These findings could alter our understanding of nutrition, genetic regulation and open up new vistas for engineering foods.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Kendal D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Hirschi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005502:Food; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs