Experts have discovered a huge potential of tobacco plant that had been getting a bad image because people are used as material for cigarettes that cause millions of cases of cancer worldwide. It turned out that tobacco can be used as a cancer drug chronic lymphoma. Drugs of this tobacco will arrange for the patient’s own immune response against the tumor cells themselves.
The drug is made ​​by using a new approach that changes the tobacco crop was genetically engineered into plants to certain vaccines. Lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system. A doctor from Stanford University in California say that this is the first time a type of plant used to produce proteins to be injected to humans and would be a way to cure cancer without side effects.
The researchers wounding tobacco leaves wrapped with a virus gene to infect these plants, which subsequently produce protein antibodies are also seen in tumor patients. A few days later, the leaves are plucked and pounded a green powder. From the leaves, the anti-body was taken and clarified. Materials are then injected back into the patient. This is the first cancer vaccine from plants have been tested in humans. Vaccines derived from plants have a number of advantages. The vaccine can be developed much faster and much cheaper.

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