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Firm says it could make 10 million doses vaccine per month against the #coronavirus, if approved by FDA. Medicago CEO Bruce Clark said they could produce as many as 10 million doses a month. How could they do that so fast? Using plant GMO, that’s how! defenseone.com/technology/202…
Medicago doesn’t work with a live virus. Instead, it uses GMO plants. The plant begins to produce the protein that can then be used as a vaccine. If the virus begins to mutate, as is expected for COVID-19, they can just update the production using new plants.
So a plant GMO-based vaccine can now save the world against a deadly scourge #coronavirus?
@medicagoinc approach to rapidly producing lots of vaccine against #COVID19 through crop biotechnology
Plants are used as biofactories
Engineered plant viruses inoculated to GM crops to rapidly produce pharmaceutical grade proteins!
Washing off bad karma? Tobacco giant owns 40% of the Medicago company, because the antibody against the novel #coronavirus would be produced in GM tobacco plants!

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