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03/19/2018 / By Robert Jonathan

New health threat from tobacco: Researchers plan to grow it for producing vaccines and new pharma drugs

The European Union is reportedly funding research designated as the NEWCOTIANA project that will turn tobacco plants into so-called biofactories to develop vaccines and new drugs. Scientists intend to breed new kinds of tobacco that will supposedly contain health-promoting substances. The effort also could revitalize tobacco farming and thus economic conditions in rural areas, according to its proponents. The AlphaGalileo […]

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