Transgenic plants expressing vaccine antigens can be used to tackle autoimmune disease like diabetes. Insulin dependent diabetes melites is an autoimmune disease resulted in the destruction of insulin producing pancreatic cells. Disease is triggered by involvement of both humoral and cell mediated immunity. The type I diabetes by autoimmunity is due to the inadvert attack on insulin producing cells by [...]
In this article we will discuss about the metabolic redesign of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a generic term used to describe a group of eight lipophilic compounds in the tocopherol and tocotrienol family. The vitamin E-family in plants comprises mainly of tocotrienols and tocopherols. Tocotrienols are the major form of vitamin E in seeds of most monocots but presence [...]
The concept of edible vaccines stem from Charles Arntzen of Texas University, USA, when he saw a mother offering a piece of banana to a crying baby. With the advent of introducing gene into the plants, he then mooted the idea that food could be genetically altered to produce vaccine in their edible parts, which could then be eaten to [...]