Tobacco plants may be used to make certain cancer vaccine for people who suffer from a chronic type of lymphoma, according to one study.
Drug, which will develop the patient’s own immune reaction to fight the tumor cells themselves, made using a new approach that turns genetically engineered tobacco plants into vaccine factories particular. Lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system.
“This is the first time a kind of plant has been used to produce the protein to be injected to humans,” said Dr. Ron Levy of Stanford University School of Medicina in California, whose research was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“This will be a way to cure cancer without the impact,” said Levy.
