Nature can provide the starting point for many drugs, pharmaceuticals and vaccines - and plants are no exception. Professor George Lomonossoff has recently been named Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Innovator of the Year for his work to harness the power of the plant. Together with Dr Frank Sainsbury from the Laval University of Canada, Lomonossoff has developed a system to produce vaccines and pharmaceutical proteins rapidly in plants. The system will enable vaccines to be produced much more rapidly for emergency vaccination programmes in the face of disease pandemics.
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