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Does this mean we are all going to die soon?
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LONDONER Wrote:Interestingly the British nurse who contracted Ebola was treated with the experimental drug ZMapp and has now been discharged from hospital. However, it should be borne in mind that ZMapp is at the moment, only produced in small qualtities. It Ebola really does turn in to a pandemic I don't think that the drug could be produced in sufficient quantity.

It's done by pharming, which is basically GMO, where you make something (plant, mice, whatever) express genes inserted into their genome. If I am understanding this and this correctly, they're getting mice and/or tobacco plants (Nicotiana) to create antibodies (which bind to the foreign object, here the ebola virus, with the purpose of identification and elimination by white blood cells). These antibodies (or the genes coding for them?) are then modified to work on us and harvested.
Eventhough pharming is a slower way of creating medicine, it's also very cost efficient, but should there ever be a need, I think we could produce plenty.
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Does this mean we are all going to die soon? - by Bowyn Aerrow - 09-03-2014, 03:40 AM
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