Vaccine Development

Genetically Engineered Fruit May Help Make Vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 24th, 2000

Patients may soon be able to receive vaccines from eating genetically modified fruit, according to researchers at the University of Rochester in New York.

The University of Rochester, working with other schools, is involved in the basic research into edible vaccines, an investigation led for nearly a decade by Cornell University plant scientists.

The University of Rochester's role, supplying genetic material to spur vaccine production in plants, is part of $11 million worth of ongoing vaccine-related research at the university.

Oral vaccines are already common. But edible vaccines would actually be grown within genetically...

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