Tobacco Plants Contribute Key Ingredient For COVID-19 Vaccine
Historically, tobacco plants are responsible for their share of illness and death. Now they may help control the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two biotech companies are using the tobacco plant, Nicotiana benthamiana, as bio-factories to produce a key protein from the coronavirus that can be used in a vaccine.
"There's obvious irony there," says James Figlar, executive vice president for research and development for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Reynolds owns Kentucky BioProcessing, one of the companies working on a COVID-19 vaccine from plants....
Reuters Staff wrote: U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday it would be clear whether a COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective by early December, but that more widespread vaccination would not be likely until later in 2021....
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Neil, science is the process of correcting mistakes, politics almost never!
The folly of modern man is to think that our methods are superior to the past. Ever heard of using radiation to cure what it causes..🤦 Read the accounts of those that used mercury and compare it to chemo patients.
Science flip-flops about as often as shady politicians, unsurprising since its methodology is logically fallacious. Mercury used to be thought a cure for syphilis. Arsenic was part of Victorian cosmetics. Let us not laugh too much at medieval alchemists who thought they could transmute lead into gold and find the Elixir of Life.
"We discovered that smoking is actually good for you" - gag from 1973 film "Sleeper"
The Dems will not like this...tobacco is the manifestation of sheer evil to them. Of course, if tobacco could kill children faster in utero, they would jump for joy.
(TMC) If I recall correctly, tobacco also had a role to play in the development of the treatment that helped the Samaritan’s Purse Doctor who had Ebola.