Could Growing Vaccines in Plants Save Lives?

Name: Could Growing Vaccines in Plants Save Lives?
Uploaded: 2018-02-19T00:00:00-05:00
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: Vaccines for influenza, polio, smallpox, even Ebola have all be grown … in plants.

February 19, 2018

This flu season has been nasty in large part because the vaccine didn’t work as well as past versions. So scientists like Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre are on the hunt for new ways to make better vaccines and think they might have found one -- by growing them in plants.

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