"The new treatment, described in this month's Nature Medicine, involves linking a feline protein that causes cat allergies to a human protein that stops immune system cells from releasing histamine, the chemical that sets off allergy symptoms."

October 27, 2004

"A Los Angeles company is exploiting the latest in biotechnology to create cats genetically engineered to be nearly free from the allergy-causing proteins that plague millions of people."

"Exposure to allergens in the womb might be a more significant factor than exposure after birth in deciding whether youngsters develop asthma or allergies later in childhood."

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