Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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*BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech jab being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about -70C. | *BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech jab being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about -70C. | ||
*The vaccine has been developed by BAT’s biotechnology division, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola and is also developing a seasonal flu vaccine. | *The vaccine has been developed by BAT’s biotechnology division, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola and is also developing a seasonal flu vaccine. | ||
===2019: [https://www.news-medical.net/health/Tobacco-Plants-and-Drug-Development.aspx Tobacco Plants and Drug Development]=== | |||
*"The first plant to be used to produce a recombinant antibody, back in 1988, was the tobacco plant. Other plants have also been used for pharmaceutical production, such as maize, wheat, tomato, potato, mustard, banana, and soybean. Tobacco is preferred as the host plant because of its rapid growth and high volume of production. It expresses foreign products much more quickly than with bioreactors, and at a significantly reduced cost." | |||
==Is there opposition to using tobacco plants to make vaccines and medicines? If yes, why?== | ==Is there opposition to using tobacco plants to make vaccines and medicines? If yes, why?== | ||