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Vaccines from the tobacco plant

2 Apr 2019

• 2 Apr 08:55

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In addition to endangering animals and humans, avian influenza epidemics can significantly affect poultry meat and egg production in regions. When an infectious disease breaks out, there is often only one method to contain it - the culling of useful birds. However, a quick and inexpensive vaccination could soon offer a new alternative. In years of close cooperation, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Cultivated Plants Research (IPK) in Gatersleben and the Institute of Biotechnlology (IBT) in Vietnam's capital Hanoi have developed a method for the production of bird flu vaccines in plants. The IPK announced that a new project will focus. Read more...