A local company wants parents of newborns to spray them with dust, Mass. High Tech reports.
The MIT-inspired idea behind Baby Boost is to get farm-fresh plant and animal proteins into young lungs, on the theory this will stimulate their immune systems and reduce their odds of developing asthma and other immune-related ailments as they grow up up in the antiseptically sterile urban bubbles created by crazed parents with bleach wipes:
Dao said he and other researchers have assembled a prototype of an automatic air freshener that uses the Baby Boost technology. "Instead of releasing a scent, it releases proteins," he said.
The story does end with a cautionary note from some Debbie Downer editor about lack of clinical studies, etc.
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