Vaccine In Your Salad? No, Really
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Vaccinations can be a controversial subject for many people, especially when it comes to injections. So what if you could replace your next shot with a salad instead? Researchers at the University of California-Riverside are working on a way to grow edible plants that carry the same medication as an mRNA vaccine.
The COVID-19 vaccine is one of the many inoculations which use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology to defeat viruses. They work by teaching cells from the immune system to recognize and attack a certain infectious disease. Unfortunately, mRNA vaccines have to stay in cold storage until use or they lose stability. The UC-Riverside team says if they’re successful, the public could eat plant-based mRNA vaccines — which could also survive at room temperature.
Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers are now looking accomplish three goals. First, the team will try to successfully deliver DNA containing mRNA vaccines into plant cells, where they can replicate. Next, the study authors want to show that plants can actually produce enough mRNA to replace a traditional injection. Finally, the team will need to determine the right dosage people will need to eat to properly replace vaccinations.
“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person,” says Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, in a university release.
“We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,” Giraldo adds. “Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.”
Plants are capable of growing more vaccines
Giraldo and a team of scientists from UC-San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University say the key to making edible vaccines are chloroplasts. These are small organs inside plant cells which help convert sunlight into energy.
“They’re tiny, solar-powered factories that produce sugar and other molecules which allow the plant to grow,” Giraldo explains. “They’re also an untapped source for making desirable molecules.”
Previous studies have shown that it’s possible for chloroplasts to express genes which are not a natural part of that plant. Giraldo’s team accomplished this by sending genetic material inside of a protective casing into plant cells.
In the new study, Giraldo teamed with UC-San Diego’s Professor Nicole Steinmetz to use nanotechnology to deliver more genetic material into chloroplasts.
“Our idea is to repurpose naturally occurring nanoparticles, namely plant viruses, for gene delivery to plants,” Steinmetz says. “Some engineering goes into this to make the nanoparticles go to the chloroplasts and also to render them non-infectious toward the plants.”
“One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals,” Giraldo adds.
Original Article: https://www.studyfinds.org/vaccines-salad-growing-plants/
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He should never run again
He will go down in history as are most criminal President especially for January 6
As he watched policeman get beaten with flags and hurt with a number of objects
As he watched in delight. DISGUSTING
I guess you love criminal Biden!
Your easily confused. Where is this video of police being beaten? All I see is police moving barricades and directing protesters inside. And undercover for inciting the crowd. Why were they not arrested? You probably believe the “ vaccine “ actually works. Ha ha ! Dumb ass
Hmmm, Trump should be arrested for tax fraud but crackhead Hunter Biden, who colluded with the Russians to line his pockets with cash while engaging in human trafficking to support his perverted sexual appetite for young girls, should not be arrested?
Do you by any chance see a double standard here?
Why?
Biden is destroying this country!!!!!
Maybe you don’t want your children and grandchildren to know what the word democracy is “supposed to” mean.
My parents and my siblings all were proud to protect this country and democracy with their lives and Biden and his cohorts are delighted to watch democracy die. What a legacy you are creating for your children!!! They will never know how great America was, only how corrupted it has become. How tragic!!!
Am I in the wrong place? I thought that this story was about “Vaccine In Your Salad?” I’m sure that nothing could go wrong!?!?!?!?
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