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UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. Messenger RNA or mRNA technology,

 

Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines

The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.

 

Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines, works by teaching our cells to recognize and protect us against infectious diseases.

 

One of the challenges with this new technology is that it must be kept cold to maintain stability during transport and storage. If this new project is successful, plant-based mRNA vaccines -; which can be eaten -; could overcome this challenge with the ability to be stored at room temperature.

 

The project's goals, made possible by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are threefold: showing that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, demonstrating the plants can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage.

 

"Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person," said Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR's Department of Botany and Plant Sciences who is leading the research, done in collaboration with scientists from UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University.

We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens. Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it."

 

Juan Pablo Giraldo, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California - Riverside

Key to making this work are chloroplasts -; small organs in plant cells that convert sunlight into energy the plant can use. "They're tiny, solar-powered factories that produce sugar and other molecules which allow the plant to grow," Giraldo said. "They're also an untapped source for making desirable molecules."

 

In the past, Giraldo has shown that it is possible for chloroplasts to express genes that aren't naturally part of the plant. He and his colleagues did this by sending foreign genetic material into plant cells inside a protective casing. Determining the optimal properties of these casings for delivery into plant cells is a specialty of Giraldo's laboratory.

For this project Giraldo teamed up with Nicole Steinmetz, a UC San Diego professor of nanoengineering, to utilize nanotechnologies engineered by her team that will deliver genetic material to the chloroplasts.

 

"Our idea is to repurpose naturally occurring nanoparticles, namely plant viruses, for gene delivery to the plants," Steinmetz said. "Some engineering goes into this to make the nanoparticles go to the chloroplasts and also to render them non-infectious toward the plants."

 

For Giraldo, the chance to develop this idea with mRNA is the culmination of a dream. "One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals," Giraldo said.

He is also co-leading a related project using nanomaterials to deliver nitrogen, a fertilizer, directly to chloroplasts, where plants need it most.

 

Nitrogen is limited in the environment, but plants need it to grow. Most farmers apply nitrogen to the soil. As a result, roughly half of it ends up in groundwater, contaminating waterways, causing algae blooms, and interacting with other organisms. It also produces nitrous oxide, another pollutant.

This alternative approach would get nitrogen into the chloroplasts through the leaves and control its release, a much more efficient mode of application that could help farmers and improve the environment.

 

The National Science Foundation has granted Giraldo and his colleagues $1.6 million to develop this targeted nitrogen delivery technology.

"I'm very excited about all of this research," Giraldo said. "I think it could have a huge impact on peoples' lives."

 

Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines

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mRNA vaccines aren’t widely used in livestock

 

and can't get into the food supply

 

According to the liars at PolitiFact (Poynter Institute) funded of course by Bill Gates & constantly lying

 

By Tom Kertscher January 23, 2023

 

And even in cases in which mRNA vaccines are used in livestock, there is no chance those vaccines could transfer to a person who eats meat from a vaccinated animal, according to the experts.

 

The vaccines "are not contaminating our food supply," said Melissa Brown, a Northwestern University immunology professor.

 

We’ve repeatedly debunked claims that vaccines can be transmitted to people by means other than direct injection.

 

The headline shared on Facebook accompanied an article that started, "This could be one of the most alarming warnings yet from Dr. Malone. He wrote an essay on how mRNA vaccines are being injected into livestock and companion animals. That means, if you consume the vaccinated animal, the mRNA vaccine enters your body."

 

The essay is a Jan. 11 blog post by Malone, but it doesn’t mention the food supply.

 

MRNA vaccines help the body produce a viral protein, which triggers the body to produce antibodies to help protect against infection. That’s slightly different from other vaccines, which contain weakened or dead bacteria or virus to trigger an immune response and help prevent infection.

 

 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/23/facebook-posts/no-mrna-vaccines-arent-widely-used-in-livestock-an/

 

Does Bill Gates Want To Put mRNA Vaccines Into Animals to ‘Get Them Into People'? People Think So

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/does-bill-gates-want-to-put-mrna-vaccines-into-animals-to-get-them-into-people-people-think-so/ar-AA16lQU1

 

UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. Messenger RNA or mRNA technology,

 

Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines

 

The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.

 

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210916/Researchers-aim-to-develop-edible-plant-based-mRNA-vaccines.aspx