DRUG-MAKING PLANTS TAKEN ONE STEP FURTHER TOWARDS REALITY
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded project has brought pharmaceutical producing plants one step closer to reality, by creating Arabidopsis plants whose seeds contain high levels of a more complex antibody than has been grown before. Belgium's Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) developed the seeds, whose antibody closely resembles a human equivalent protecting cells against Hepatitis A. *http://www.pharma-planta.org/
A EUROPEAN Union-funded project has brought pharmaceutical producing plants one step closer to reality, by creating Arabidopsis plants whose seeds contain high levels of a more complex antibody than has been grown before. Belgium's Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) developed the seeds, whose antibody closely resembles a human equivalent protecting cells against Hepatitis A. *http://www.pharma-planta.org/
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