GM plants will be used to create Aids vaccine [Independent.UK]

[truthisfreedom]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=540456

GM plants will be used to create Aids vaccine

By Steve Connor Science Editor

13 July 2004

Genetically modified plants are to be used to grow vaccines against rabies and Aids, scientists have announced.


Europe's first field trial, announced yesterday, is likely to be carried out in South Africa because of fears over crop vandalism in Britain.


The GM crop could dramatically reduce the cost of producing vaccines ­ scientists estimate they can be made at between a tenth and a hundredth of the price of conventional immunisations.
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It is likely the first pharmaceuticals crop will be GM maize or GM tobacco that will be engineered with a set of genes for making prototype vaccines against either HIV or rabies. By purifying the proteins from the harvested crop scientists hope to mass-produce vaccines at a fraction of the current cost.
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corn and tobacco? hey! they could make corn liquor and cigarettes out of the plants, and we could hang out in bars all night, drinkin', smokin', and gettin' immunized! woohoo! hot dog! this is medical science at it's best, boys... NOW YOU'RE THINKIN'! 8^)

[JaySherman]

1. The cure for cancer in GM'd tobacco.

Now THAT would be funny. :smoke:

[xchrom]

2. why do i have my doubts?

they'd have to have an effective vaccine to begin with wouldn't they -- before they start with a procedure to begin with?
as my mother would say -- ''wishing don't make it so.''