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- noun The
field of growing (usuallygenetically ) alteredplants formedicinal uses.
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Drug companies have hailed this new field, known as biopharming, as a low-cost alternative to traditional manufacturing.
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Germany, India, and China have been producing medications from plants ( 'biopharming') for years.
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Crops such as corn, soybean, tobacco and rice are now being genetically engineered to produce pharmaceutical proteins and chemicals such as topical contraceptives, growth hormones, blood clotters and thinners, and industrial enzymes and vaccines - an activity dubbed "biopharming."
CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it 2009
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The number of field trials of biopharming has dropped dramatically from a peak of 42 in 2000 to six last year.
CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it 2009
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What made this approach feasible was a private company's invention of a method to produce human lactoferrin and lysozyme in gene-spliced rice, a process dubbed "biopharming."
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Last year, Monsanto closed its biopharming division.
CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it 2009
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You only have to think of biopharming, growing drugs in genetically modified corn.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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Although no deals have been struck, Ausenbaugh is hopeful that his idea will help put the biopharming industry back on track, while keeping the meds out of your cornflakes.
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As a result, it would let growers sidestep some of the regulatory rigmarole to which biopharming is usually subjected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture—one of at least three federal agencies that scrutinize the various aspects of production, along with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.
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Regulations have since been tightened, and the young industry suffered a huge blow when biotech behemoth Monsanto abandoned its biopharming research in 2003.
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"biopharming”—plant-based pharmaceutical production. These companies challenge the status quo of biomanufacturing, purporting that plant-based technology has the potential to produce complex biomolecules cheaper, easier, and faster than traditional pharmaceutical facilities.
July 1, 2015