Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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===2019: [https://www.news-medical.net/health/Tobacco-Plants-and-Drug-Development.aspx Tobacco Plants and Drug Development]=== | ===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." | *"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." | ||
===2014: [https://time.com/3457472/see-how-ebola-drugs-grow-in-tobacco-leaves/ See How Ebola Drugs Grow In Tobacco Leaves]=== | |||
*"Why plants? The time it takes to grow a plant is less time than it takes to genetically engineer a mouse or other rodent to produce human antibodies, which is how such products have been made in the past. It’s also less expensive. Plant-based manufacturing represents a promising new way of producing drugs that could cut the time it takes to bring critical medications, such as a flu vaccine during a pandemic, to a large number of people. Researchers have used the technology to develop a vaccine against norovirus, the infection that plagues cruise ships, for example, that is being tested now." | |||
==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?== | ||