Researchers turn off peanut allergy in mice

Researchers at Northwestern University experimented on mice's allergies, hoping to discover a way to "turn off" these allergies in humans.  They successfully rid mice of a peanut allergy -- one of the more common types of allergies found in humans -- by tricking the mice's immune system into thinking the peanut wasn't a threat, which is normally the problem with allergens.  The immune system instead perceived it as a normal food, just as it would any other non-allergen food.  Hopefully, one day no will have to deal with troublesome allergens.