![]() ![]() The company’s registered technology uses genetically modified tobacco plants to “grow” biopharmaceuticals at a relatively low cost, the release said. PlantForm, a Canadian biotech company, says it has a low-cost proprietary manufacturing platform for a wide range of plant-made pharmaceuticals, including monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic proteins and vaccines for the treatment of cancer, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and other life-threatening illnesses. It can be turned into a mist and inhaled. It can kill the cells by keeping them from making the proteins they need. The poison can get into cells in the body. PlantForm has also received funding from the federal government for development of a plant-made version of an enzyme that counteracts the effects of nerve agents such as sarin, the release said. Ricin is a poison that can be made from the waste left when castor beans are made into castor oil. “We believe that plants hold the key to cost-effective, large-scale production of antidotes for ricin and other potential bioterrorism threats.” And the dark web includes a number of extensive, sophisticated, and widely used online criminal. “We’re very encouraged by the initial study results for the plant-produced anti-ricin antibody, and we look forward to the next phase of evaluation,” PlantForm president and CEO Don Stewart said in the release. Ricin, of course, is a highly potent and potentially fatal toxin with no known antidote. Hall is PlantForm’s co-founder and its chief scientific officer.ĭefence Research and Development Canada studies have found the plant-made version of the antibody showed effectiveness against ricin exposure was comparable to the effectiveness of hD9 produced using mammalian cell technology, the release said. How does exposure to ricin occur It would take a deliberate act to make ricin and use it to poison people. But researchers may have found an antidote for one of the. Death from ricin poisoning could occur within 36 to 48 hours of. Death results from multiple organ failure. Eventually, the liver, kidneys, and spleen stop working, and massive bleeding occurs in the stomach and intestines. ![]() ![]() Christopher Hall to evaluate the potential for PlantForm’s tobacco-plant-based drug expression system to produce the hD9 antibody. Death cap mushrooms get their name for a reason: The poisonous fungi can kill if ingested in even small amounts. Injection: Injection of a lethal amount of ricin causes the muscles and lymph nodes near the injection site to die. The contract to PlantForm follows work conducted last year in the lab of University of Guelph Professor Emeritus J. ![]()
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