Well, damn!! Finished - and sent revised version off. We shall see how it does, out there in the cruel world...😁 #ISPMF

And plant molecular farming…! #ISPMF

#ISPMF @isv-news.bsky.social The ISPMF is the premier society for plant molecular farming - and has GREAT conferences!!

Can CHO Bioreactors Be Used For Plant-Based Protein Production? The moss Physcomitrium patens is especially good at producing glycoproteins. Established technology and prior knowledge are helping one company develop new therapies with it.

Great interview with Andreas Schaaf, #teamEleva
Can CHO Bioreactors Be Used For Plant-Based Protein Production?
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www.bioprocessonline.com/doc/can-cho-...

#ISPMF #greenvaccine

"However...however seductive the prospect of growing your own vaccines in bananas outside your front door, the problems inherent in quality and dosage control using unprocessed seeds or fruits or leaves outside of the clinic meant that it was never going to happen"

Review in progress. #ISPMF

#GreenVaccine #ISPMF

Eleva Biologics – Next level medicine with ease

Engineering the moss Physcomitrium patens to produce proteins with paucimannosidic glycans
by Eleva elevabiologics.com
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www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Production and immunogenicity of a plant-produced beak and feather disease virus vaccine in Japanese quails - Archives of Virology Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), a single-stranded DNA virus, infects endangered psittacine species, including the South African Cape parrot. The disease is highly contagious and can be transmit...

To show that there's life in the old dog - or possibly parrot - yet: "Production and immunogenicity of a plant-produced beak and feather disease virus vaccine in Japanese quails". 😎 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ISPMF

Eleva and 3PBIOVIAN sign strategic alliance – Eleva Biologics

Happy to see the amazing progress the company that I founded 26 years ago makes:
#Eleva and #3PBIOVIAN sign strategic #GMP #manufacturing and technology alliance to boost capacity for Eleva’s platform and pipeline.
#biopharmaceuticals #ispmf

elevabiologics.com/eleva-and-3p...

Aramis Biotechnologies | Plant-based vaccine technology Canadian biomanufacturing company specializing in the production of innovative plant-based vaccines

Aramis Biotechnologies
Aramis Biotechnologies is developing vaccines in plants to protect human health. They are the successor to Medicago Inc., of fond memory. #ISPMF

aramisbiotechnologies.com/en/

#ISPMF International Society for Plant Molecular Farming online seminar - Friday 6th December!!

Engineered Resistance to Tobamoviruses Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was the first virus to be studied in detail and, for many years, TMV and other tobamoviruses, particularly tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) and tobamoviruses infecting pepper (Cap...

#ISPMF I like TMV as a model: structural, genetic, pathogenic - and seeing it was one of the first resistances to be engineered into plants back nearly 40 years ago, this is a great read for plant pathologists and virologists in general! www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...

Great news, indeed!
Eleva Receives Orphan Drug Designation in Europe for Proprietary Factor H Therapy in C3 Glomerulopathy (C3G)
#moss #mossmadedrug #ispmf
archive.newsletter2go.com?n2g=8649ew2b...

Differential prolyl hydroxylation by six Physcomitrella prolyl-4 hydroxylases Hydroxylation of prolines to 4-trans-hydroxyproline (Hyp) is mediated by prolyl 4-hydroxylases (P4Hs). In plants, Hyps occur in Hydroxyproline-rich gl…

Delighted to present our latest publication:
Differential prolyl hydroxylation by six #Physcomitrella prolyl-4 hydroxylases
#glycoengineering #biopharmaceuticals #ispmf
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So they go blind if you vacuum infiltrate them: interesting!! #ISPMF

Agreement reached on retaining Medicago’s strategic research and development assets in Canada and ... Following the cessation of Medicago’s operations by its parent company Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation (“MCG”) in February 2023, the Government of Canada’s objectives were threefold: mai...

Good news for Molecular Farming!! #ISPMF thanks to @aschier1.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...

Danelle van Jaarsveldt, working with us from Univ of the Free State to make bunyavirus NPs in plants, visiting Cape Bio Pharms Ltd. with me, courtesy of Francisco Pera (in picture) and Jenni Stander! Backdrop provided by Nicotiana benthamiana 😁 #molecularfarming #ispmf

I have visited these guys and refereed a couple of papers - and they are seriously good. GREAT products! #ISPMF @ISPMF

And again: longer story on @capebiopharms investment #GreenVaccines #ISPMF

To think this all started with a hyper-optimistic TEDx talk in Cape Town 6 years ago 😄 Well done, @capebiopharms; well done @UCT_news and @UCT_Research for backing them; wonderful that @EIB saw the potential; now let’s see you fly! #GreenVaccines #ISPMF

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Two weeks, two great papers on plant-made papillomavirus VLPs by talented young MSc graduates from our lab. Paulina’s turn: potential for a decavalent plant-produced HPV vaccine!! #ispmf #GreenVaccines!

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#GreenVaccines! #ISPMF

Hadrien Peyret @Lomonossoff_Lab gave an excellent seminar on his novel plant expression vectors via Zoom to our Molecular & Cell Biology Dept here in Cape Town today. Much appreciated!! #ISPMF

#ISPMF Green vaccines. The way to go 😁

Going green: the sensible thing to do 😎🌱 Medicago Inc teams up with GSK to supply adjuvant for their plant-made COVID-19 subunit vaccine #ISPMF

Heterologous expression of biologically active Mambalgin-1 peptide as a new potential anticancer, using a PVX-based viral vector in Nicotiana benthamiana | #ISPMF @scoopit