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Plant-based vaccines
Due to COVID-19, everybody is talking about vaccines. But did you know we can use plants to produce vaccines, in a safe, rapid and scalable way? Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company based in Canada is doing just that using innovative plant-based technologies to provide rapid responses to emerging global health challenges, developing vaccines and therapeutics. Medicago is known for the production in plants of “virus-like particles” (VLP), that mimic the structure of viruses. VLP, once purified,…