PLANT DRUGS
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA JOINT European research project has been given Euro 12 million in European Commission funding to perfect techniques for producing antibodies and vaccines from plants to prevent and treat major human diseases, such as AIDS, rabies and TB. The 11 European country (and South Africa) project plans to use genetically modified crops to produce its pharmaceuticals. This Pharma-Planta consortium is led by the Fraunhofer Institute for molecular biology, in Aachen, Germany, and London's St George's Hospital Medical School. These coordinators want to start ...
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