Grow Your Own Ozempic? Students Engineer Plants to Produce Life-Saving Drugs
A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages, they created Phytogene, a sustainable biomanufacturing platform that uses tobacco plants to produce essential medications like Ozempic alternatives. Their innovation could slash pharmaceutical pollution and cost, letting people grow life-saving drugs in their own backyards…
A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages, they created Phytogene, a sustainable biomanufacturing platform that uses tobacco plants to produce essential medications like Ozempic alternatives. Their innovation could slash pharmaceutical pollution and cost, letting people grow life-saving drugs in their own backyards…
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