British American Tobacco has moved a step closer to producing a vaccine for coronavirus using tobacco plants, as it won approval in the US to begin testing on humans.

The company behind cigarette brands including Lucky Strike, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges said the US Food & Drug Administration had given it clearance to begin a clinical study with adult volunteers.

While large pharmaceutical companies are already producing vaccines, BAT believes its own can be produced in six weeks, compared with the several months it takes using conventional methods.

This, the company claims, is because of proprietary technology that allows elements of the vaccine to gather quickly on tobacco plants.

BAT also says its vaccine is stable at room temperature, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech jab being administered in the UK, which must be stored and transported at about -70C.

The vaccine has been developed by BAT’s biotechnology division, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola and is also developing a seasonal flu vaccine.

BAT said KBP had cloned a portion of the genetic sequence of coronavirus and developed a potential antigen, which is then inserted into tobacco plants for reproduction.

KBP, which is based in Owensboro, Kentucky, says it can turn tobacco plants into “bio-manufacturing factories” capable of producing proteins they would not otherwise produce.

Up to 3m can be grown, harvested and processed within six weeks, meaning the relevant proteins are produced faster than traditional methods, which KBP said could take months.

The company, which was bought by BAT in 2014, says it can also temporarily encode tobacco plants with the genetic instructions to produce specific target proteins.

Dr David O’Reilly, BAT’s director of scientific research, said: “Moving into human trials with both our Covid-19 and seasonal flu vaccine candidates is a significant milestone and reflects our considerable efforts to accelerate the development of our emerging biologicals portfolio.

“It is our unique plant-based vaccine technology, which acts as a fast, efficient host for the production of antigens for a variety of diseases, that has enabled us to make this progress and respond to the urgent global need for safe and effective treatments and vaccines.”

BAT’s vaccine remains some way behind those being produced by large drug companies such as Pfizer, which is administering doses in the UK and US, with AstraZeneca and Moderna not far behind.

But if it can produce doses quickly and in a stable format, it could aid a global vaccination process likely to last years, as well as burnishing the reputation of a company more used to fielding criticism for damaging people’s health.


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/16/british-american-tobacco-approval-test-covid-vaccine-humans

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The other day, we saw Dino Melaye, who isn't qualified in any of the biological sciences, claiming the vaccines are being created to kill.

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rusher14:
People are conducting research on any and everything.

In our case, we are more invested in politics, power, conspiracies and matters one can never physically substantiate.

What is wrong with us?

The other day, we saw Dino Melaye, who isn't qualified in any of the biological sciences, claiming the vaccines are being created to kill.

Honestly, one cannot but become depressed at the black race and the most populous black nation.

Get up and do something.

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Please do. Good luck with that. Those who don't listen all have a price to pay. Please take the vaccines.

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Please do. Good luck with that. Those who don't listen all have a price to pay. Please take the vaccines.

Of course I will.

Why should I believe conspiracies?
Researchers made the device you are using to type your message.

Another set of researchers made antimalarials and medicines you and I consume when we fall ill.

Suddenly, because of some anonymous dolt online, I should stop trusting the same set of researchers who have created vaccines.

What is the sense in that?

Take your conspiracies and shove it where the sun don't shine.

rusher14:

Of course I will.

Why should I believe conspiracies?
Researchers made the device you are using to type your message.

Another set of researchers made antimalarials and medicines you and I consume when we fall ill.

Suddenly, because of some anonymous dolt online, I should stop trusting the same set of researchers who have created vaccines.

What is the sense in that?

Take your conspiracies and shove it where the sun don't shine.

The same people who must have definitely called Noah a conspiracy theorists in His days ended up drowning. Every generation is full of people who have ears but do not listen. Have you heard of the people with facial deformities who took the vaccine. It trended in Twitter America. After you receive that shot. You will say had i known. Please take an over dose of the vaccine, since you trust killer Pfizer and mordrna with your life.

Visit those 3 twitter links and think again before you take the vaccineuna don start again, so it’s no longer 5G

HallaDaTruth:

The same people who must have definitely called Noah a conspiracy theorists in His days ended up drowning. Every generation is full of people who have ears but do not listen. Have you heard of the people with facial deformities who took the vaccine. It trended in Twitter America. After you receive that shot. You will say had i known. Please take an over dose of the vaccine, since you trust killer Pfizer and mordrna with your life.

say what?

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