No Sun, No Problem: CRISPR’d Tomatoes Produce Vitamin D

The summer may mean more time in the sun, but many people around the world still do not get enough vitamin D. Now, researchers have used CRISPR-based genome-editing to engineer tomatoes with an accumulation of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), creating a sustainable source of vitamin D. The gene-edited tomatoes may provide “a biofortified food with the added possibility of supplement production from waste material.”