BioBytes: Biotechnology and Plant Made Pharmaceuticals

When you look at a field of tobacco plants, your first thought probably isn't about its medicinal uses. But in a few years, this crop may help produce life-saving vaccines and therapies for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis, and arthritis - just to name a few. Biotechnology researchers are currently exploring the production of plant made pharmaceuticals - which basically means using plants to produce protein-based pharmaceuticals. Dr. Targan explains how the process works, and how this type of research could make pharmaceutical manufacturing more affordable in the future.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• biotechnology
• biotech
• vaccinces
• pharmaceuticals
• tobacco
• recombinant DNA
• cancer
• HIV
• arthritis
• diabetes
• Diarrhea
• alzheimer's disease
• crohn's disease
• e.coli
• hepatitis

[wwe3466]

Im glad that all stupid tree hugging terrorist scum are so dependent on this Science for their clothing, food, medicine, and even decoration and defense as the Kevlar armor of our armed and police forces is a product of biotechnology..Next time someone asks you genetic engineering harmful, Ask them to explain to you step by step exactly how it works...They don't know anything, its a political ideology, not Scientific fact, and some even manipulate or fabricate data as well, a stain on Science

[wwe3466]

Tell me this, do you understand how this technology works? As in a technical knowledge? NO, you are just another brained washed puppet of Treehuging terrorists who take advantage of the people's ignorance to spread fear of biotechnological advances,and Biotechnology is their scape goat, If you don't improve the biological technology and go back to medieval farming, expect medieval problems such as famine and food shortages when your precious organic crop fails,by the way all your medicine is GMO

[ADoseofReality1]

..and of course, fucking with nature in these manners never results in any negative consequences. Man, just what the fuck is wrong with us? I'll stick with natures way of balancing things out or at least discoveries that don't cross a moral line. Humans have a history of shitting the bed.