Going plant-based: how molecular farming could revolutionise drug development

As the first plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is approved, we look at how this alternative means of developing drugs may be cheaper, more efficient and could even produce a superior product.
A combine harvester releasing pills

The concept of producing biological drugs in plants has been around since the 1980s.

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