{
  "id": 14716015,
  "title": "Meet Gabriella Rothberg, 17, co-inventor of patented genetically engineered tomato",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/meet-gabriella-rothberg-17-co-inventor-of-patented-genetically",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-15T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/discovery/meet-gabriella-rothberg-the-17-year-old-miami-student-who-began-with-a-sandwich-idea-at-15-and-became-co-inventor-on-a-us-patent-for-genetically-engineered-tomatoes-designed-to-produce-meat-linked-heme/articleshow/134966877.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A sandwich idea at 15 led Miami student Gabriella Rothberg to develop genetically engineered tomatoes designed to produce heme, an iron-containing molecule associated with meat flavour. Now 17, she is listed alongside her father on a US patent issued in June 2026. The project remains experimental, with taste and nutritional benefits yet to be established.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}