Halloween has come and gone, and with it goes the fear of that small portion of the population with overactive Immunoglobin E: the peanut hypersensitive. For a group that makes up only 0.6% of the western world, they sure do get around. They're in your classroom, your cafeteria, on your airplane. And everywhere they go, the rules change to accommodate them.

But what if we could do away with this irritating allergy all together? Science in Seconds sniffs around.

_{Host: Brit Trogen}

_{Photo credits: Stethoscopes, Aney, Mark Fickett, Rain Rannu, Scrape TV, Sanjay Acharya, and public domain}

_References:

_{http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20070226/progress-against-peanut-allergies}

_{http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1398-9995.2009.01982.x/abstract}