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2007-01-17 | permalink
Producing medicines in plant seeds
Using plants to produce useful proteins could be an inexpensive alternative to current medicine production methods. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University have succeeded in producing in plant seeds proteins that have a very strong resemblance to antibodies. They have also demonstrated that these antibody variants are just as active as the whole antibodies that occur naturally in humans. By virtue of their particular action, antibodies are very useful for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. From this research, it is now also clear that these kinds of antibody variants can be used in medical applications and that it is possible to produce them in the seeds of plants, which can have enormous advantages over conventional production methods.
- Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium: Producing medicines in plant seeds
- Voice of America, USA: Inexpensive vaccines against diseases may be sooner than you think
- PigProgress.net: Peas fight pig infections
- In-PharmaTechnologist.com, France: Cost-cutting plant-based insulin to hit market by 2010
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2007-01-17 | permalink
Producing medicines in plant seeds
Using plants to produce useful proteins could be an inexpensive alternative to current medicine production methods. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University have succeeded in producing in plant seeds proteins that have a very strong resemblance to antibodies. They have also demonstrated that these antibody variants are just as active as the whole antibodies that occur naturally in humans. By virtue of their particular action, antibodies are very useful for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. From this research, it is now also clear that these kinds of antibody variants can be used in medical applications and that it is possible to produce them in the seeds of plants, which can have enormous advantages over conventional production methods.
- Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium: Producing medicines in plant seeds
- Voice of America, USA: Inexpensive vaccines against diseases may be sooner than you think
- PigProgress.net: Peas fight pig infections
- In-PharmaTechnologist.com, France: Cost-cutting plant-based insulin to hit market by 2010
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