Plants can be used to study how and why people respond differently to drugs

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While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all. According to a research team led by UC Riverside's Sean Cutler, such variation in drug responses can be analyzed by studying much simpler organisms -- like plants.

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