{"id":117265,"date":"2020-12-17T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/covid-vaccine-made-from-gmo-tobacco-its-now-in-human-trials"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:24:39","slug":"covid-vaccine-made-from-gmo-tobacco-its-now-in-human-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/covid-vaccine-made-from-gmo-tobacco-its-now-in-human-trials","title":{"rendered":"COVID vaccine made from GMO tobacco? It\u2019s now in human trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-vaccine-made-from-gmo-tobacco-its-now-in-human-trials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBAT said KBP had cloned a portion of the genetic sequence of coronavirus and developed a potential antigen, which is then inserted into tobacco plants for reproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude32\ud83d\ude32\ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>While large pharmaceutical companies are already producing vaccines, [the company British American Tobacco] believes its own can be produced in six weeks, compared with the several months it takes using conventional methods.<\/p>\n<p>This, the company claims, is because of proprietary technology that allows elements of the vaccine to gather quickly on tobacco plants.<\/p>\n<p>BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/how-does-the-pfizerbiontech-covid-vaccine-work-and-who-will-get-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlike the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab<\/a> being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about-70C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBAT said KBP had cloned a portion of the genetic sequence of coronavirus and developed a potential antigen, which is then inserted into tobacco plants for reproduction.\u201d \ud83d\ude32\ud83d\ude32\ud83d\ude32 While large pharmaceutical companies are already producing vaccines, [the company British American Tobacco] believes its own can be produced in six weeks, compared with the several months [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}