Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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==Using the plant to make vaccines and medicines - Articles, News, Blogs, etc.== | ==Using the plant to make vaccines and medicines - Articles, News, Blogs, etc.== | ||
===2023: [https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2023/05/native-tobacco-plants-reborn-biofactories%E2%80%99-medicines-0 Native tobacco plants reborn as ‘biofactories’ for medicines]=== | |||
*"Professor David Craik and Dr Mark Jackson from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have demonstrated native wild tobacco, ''Nicotiana benthamiana'', can potentially produce large quantities of drugs, cheaper and more sustainably than industrial manufacturing methods." | |||
*"The researchers grew the drug T20K, which is currently in phase 1 clinical trials to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system...We have shown it is possible to scale up production of cyclotides in plants, providing a platform for growing other medications for pain, cancer or obesity,” Professor Craik said." | |||
===2023: [https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-have-made-cocaine-from-a-tobacco-plant Scientists Have Made Cocaine From a Tobacco Plant]=== | ===2023: [https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-have-made-cocaine-from-a-tobacco-plant Scientists Have Made Cocaine From a Tobacco Plant]=== | ||
*"Cocaine is perhaps most notoriously known as a dangerous drug. But it’s also used legally as a local anesthetic for surgeries. Scientists in China have now genetically engineered a tobacco plant to produce cocaine in its leaves." | *"Cocaine is perhaps most notoriously known as a dangerous drug. But it’s also used legally as a local anesthetic for surgeries. Scientists in China have now genetically engineered a tobacco plant to produce cocaine in its leaves." | ||
=== | ===2022: [https://archive.is/bI2Mb Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocaine in its leaves]=== | ||
*" | *"Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people manufacture the drug for scientific study" | ||
*" | *"But using other plants to produce cocaine won’t offer an advantage for illicit producers, says Lichman. Growing and harvesting coca, and purifying cocaine from naturally productive plant tissue, is orders of magnitude more scalable and cheaper than producing it in another plant, he says, but having the biosynthetic pathway mapped out could lead to the production of chemically similar compounds to cocaine that have unique medicinal properties." | ||
===2021: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/your-next-vaccine-could-be-grown-in-a-tobacco-plant Your next vaccine could be grown in a tobacco plant]=== | ===2021: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/your-next-vaccine-could-be-grown-in-a-tobacco-plant Your next vaccine could be grown in a tobacco plant]=== | ||