Plants as bioreactors

[nozomi604]

Today, I was reading about the potential issue with COVID vaccines including squalene from shark livers:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/500000-sharks-could-be-killed-race-produce-covid-19-vaccine-180975973/

But I also found this interesting side note:

https://www.medicago.com/en/technologies/#production-platform

"Medicago's plant-derived vaccine development... uses living plants as bioreactors to produce a non-infectious particle that mimics the target virus"

Comments

[darkoshi]

Interesting. I hadn't even started thinking about that aspect of the COVID vaccines yet.