“When we infect the plant, it just produces massive amounts of our desired protein.” sounds like a superplant to me. Tobacco: More Efficient Flu Vaccine-Maker? With flu season only a sneeze away, the vaccines that swell arms across North America this year will still be made with chicken eggs. However, flu pandemic could call a Canadian biopharma company into action. In clinical trials now, their method uses tobacco plants to produce flu vaccines affordably in weeks rather than months. leaf through the article…

“When we infect the plant, it just produces massive amounts of our desired protein.”

sounds like a superplant to me.

Tobacco: More Efficient Flu Vaccine-Maker?

With flu season only a sneeze away, the vaccines that swell arms across North America this year will still be made with chicken eggs. However, flu pandemic could call a Canadian biopharma company into action. In clinical trials now, their method uses tobacco plants to produce flu vaccines affordably in weeks rather than months.

leaf through the article…

Source: news.discovery.com

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