{"id":129784,"date":"2021-11-01T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/molecular-farming-means-the-next-vaccine-could-be-edible-and-grown-in-a-plant"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:22:54","slug":"molecular-farming-means-the-next-vaccine-could-be-edible-and-grown-in-a-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/molecular-farming-means-the-next-vaccine-could-be-edible-and-grown-in-a-plant","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-farming-means-the-next-vaccine-could-be-edible-and-grown-in-a-plant3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the dog days of summer. You bite down on a plump, chilled orange. Citrus juice explodes in your mouth in a refreshing, tingling burst. Ahh.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations\u2014you\u2019ve just been vaccinated for the latest virus.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the goals of molecular farming, a vision to have plants synthesize medications and vaccines. Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, scientists can introduce brand new biochemical pathways into plant cells\u2014or even whole plants\u2014essentially turning them into single-use bioreactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the dog days of summer. You bite down on a plump, chilled orange. Citrus juice explodes in your mouth in a refreshing, tingling burst. Ahh. And congratulations\u2014you\u2019ve just been vaccinated for the latest virus. That\u2019s one of the goals of molecular farming, a vision to have plants synthesize medications and vaccines. Using genetic engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129784","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}