More than Peas in Mendel’s Garden

I’ve entered a previous entry on genetically engineered tomatoes to Mendel’s Garden, a blogging carnival about everything genetics-related, hosted this time at Evolgen. There’s one other food entry I’ve spotted: DNA Talk marvels on the medicinal benefits of coffee, pretty much what I have enumerated in a previous entry.

What role genetics play there, however, was not explicitly mentioned. You’ll have to dig deeper and read the linked post which discusses the genetics of caffeine metabolism. Apparently, coffee drinkers that are slow metabolizers of caffeine are at greater risk of heart attack.

Consider this caveat before you guzzle your coffee in the hopes of reaping its other medicinal benefits.