No Poo Rice
A biotech company is moving into medical production with a new variety of transgenic rice.
The possibilities for growing drugs in plants - dubbed “pharming” - have been researched for years, with scientists developing a wide range of vaccines and other medicines in several common foods in the laboratory. But now Ventria Bioscience, based in Sacramento, is to break new ground by planting 130 acres with two new varieties of GM rice that will produce lactoferrin and lysozyme, infection-fighting chemicals that it will market for use in oral rehydration products to treat severe diarrhoea.
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