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GE Venture To Design Novel Vaccines Plant

by Michael McCoy
April 15, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 15

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iBio grows pharmaceutical proteins in green plants.
A tray of plants growing upside-down in a lab. A label in the back says “IRS-200.”
Credit: PRNewsFoto/iBio
iBio grows pharmaceutical proteins in green plants.

A seven-month-old alliance between GE Healthcare and the biologics production specialist iBio has won a contract to design a plant-based vaccines facility in Brazil for the country’s Ministry of Health. iBio says its gene-expression technology causes nontransgenic plants to rapidly produce high levels of target proteins. The technique manufactures biologic drugs faster and less expensively than do cell-culture-based methods, the firm claims.

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