University of California-Riverside: Grow and Eat Your Own Vaccines?
September 17, 2021
September 17, 2021
RIVERSIDE, California, Sept. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:
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Grant enables study of plants as mRNA factories
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The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vac . . .
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Grant enables study of plants as mRNA factories
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The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vac . . .