Your Future Flu Vaccines Could Be Grown Inside a Tobacco Plant

See on Scoop.itVirology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca

Finally, some good news about tobacco and your health. No, there is no nicotine involved, but there will be lots and lots of virus-like particles. Tobacco plants could be one of the fastest and most effective ways of making the seasonal flu vaccine—much faster than the current method using chicken eggs.

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