Process Fight Flu With Tobacco
(How to turn geneticslly modified plants into a vaccine factory)
This flu season has been a particularly bad one. But an innovative method for making vaccines promises an easier and quicker response to pandemics thanks to good ol’ tobacco. Sounds healthy,right? Currently, the majority of the 130 million seasonal flu vaccine doses administered in the US every year are made using live chicken embryos. But the process is costly, time-consuming, and requires a lot of eggs. So Medicago, a canadian pharmaceutical company,is testing a new idea: coax tobacco plants into expressing the proteins to make vaccines. Last year Darpa Challenged the firm to make 10 million doses in a month. Medicago succeeded, proving it can respond quickly to a new outbreak much faster than the six months reguired for egg based vaccines. This is how the tobacky gets wacky.
---Katharine Gammon
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