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Ventria Bioscience has received $3.75 million in financing from the state of Kansas to expand the company's processing capacity and prepare its anti-diarrheal rice products for market. Chief Executive Scott Deeter has said Ventria will launch an over-the-counter product by the end of the year. It would be the first genetically engineered "medical food" to reach the market. - July 08

Medicago to evaluate establishment of a pandemic vaccine production facility in France in collaboration with Genopole d'Evry in Paris - July 08

Tomatoes could be a suitable carrier for an oral vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the Biotechnology Letters. HyunSoon Kim from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in Korea and colleagues from Digital Biotech Inc. and the Department of Biological Science at Wonkwang University conducted the study. - July 08

Ventria's pharmaceutical rice fields are flourishing, - ramps up production lines in Kansas as orders come in. - June 08

Breakthrough in plant medicine production - A research team including scientists from Plant Research International and Wageningen University has succeeded in further unravelling and manipulating the glycosylation of proteins in plants. - June 08

Bayer and its subsidiary Icon Genetics have together developed a new production process that can be used to produce biotech drugs in tobacco plants. - June 08

Article on Om Parkash Dhankher efforts to engineer a rice plant that doesn't take up arsenic, and engineer non-food plants to clean-up arsenic in polluted ground. - June 08

Article on Canada's Molecular-farming companies, - Sembiosys and Medicago - June 08

SemBioSys Genetics Inc. announces that it has demonstrated that its safflower-produced Apo AI(Milano) (safflower Apo AI(Milano)) is functional in a widely accepted animal model - June 08.

Arizona State University Prof. Charles Arntzen, a pioneer in biotechnology and the genetic engineering of plants to trigger an effective immune response in humans and animals, receives an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. - June 08

Dr. Ravinder Sardana from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa produces the cytokine Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) in rice. - May 08

Dr. Nat Kav, University of Alberta, working on the molecular farming of plants that could inoculate cattle against mad cow disease. - May 08

Researchers from Fudan University, Jiao Tong University, and the Institute for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, China report producing a novel hepatitis B vaccine in rice seeds. - May 08

Human papillomavirus L1 protein expressed in tobacco chloroplasts self-assembles into virus-like particles that are highly immunogenic - May 08

Aresa gets permission from the Serbian authorities to plant transgenic tobacco for the detection of explosives - May 08

ORF Genetics, an Icelandic biotechnology company, announces the opening of new and revolutionary 22,000 ft2 (2043m2) cultivation facilities in Grindavik, Iceland. Utilizing its unique Orfeus(TM) protein production system in barley, ORF Genetics produces and markets biorisk-free ISOkine(TM) human growth factors for use in medical research, drug discovery and cosmetics.- May 08

Transgenic plants may be an economical means of producing novel feedstocks, such as biodegradable polymers, if limitations to product accumulation and expression of unwanted traits can be minimized. - Apr.08

SemBioSys initiates toxicology study for safflower-produced insulin - Mar.08

The future of engineered agriculture, including molecular farming - Mar.08

The alternatives for tobacco - Mar.08

Growing non-food proteins and products in transgenic plants - Mar.08

Brazil awaits go-ahead for Biofuel molecular farming sugar cane - Mar.08

Biotechnology will transform sustainable biofuel production, BIO says - Mar.08

Famed geneticist Craig Venter creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel - Feb.08

Japanese Scientists molecular farm rice to act as Cholera vaccine - Feb.08

Iranian scientists alter tobacco to assist with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment - Feb.08

Israeli transgenic plants offer safer human collagen - Feb. 08

Metabolix and Donald Danforth Plant Center investigate Bioplastic Plants - Feb.08

Safflowers may make rennet for cheese - Jan.08

Mexico - Molecular Farming plants may soon offer a solution to HIV - Jan.08

Phytoremediation of volatile pollutants through genetic engineering - Jan.08

Protalix's Plant based biopharmaceutical for Gaucher’s disease - Jan.08

GMO Compass on plant biopharming risks - Jan.08

Purdue University - Hybrid poplar trees to absorb contaminants - Jan.08

Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology - anthrax vaccine work - Jan.08

Trees by Design ? - Jan.08

Russian scientists work on anti-Hepatitis B vaccine in Tobacco and potato - Jan.08

Children's DPT vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus). Can molecular farming produce a safer version? - Nov.07

Molecular farming of Moss - future discussed in pharmaceutical production - Nov.07

Molecular-farmed mushrooms may aid rapid vaccine response - Nov.07

Engineering trees to produce new biofuels - Nov.07

Biodiesel venture combines refining and plant genetic engineering - Nov.07

Meristem and SBH Sciences, - Joint development of animal-free recombinant proteins - Nov.07

GM plants that produce fish oils could help fight heart disease - Nov.07

Fungus being engineered as biopesticide to kill malaria carrying mosquitos - Nov.07

Periwinkle plant tumour harnessed to produce medicines - Oct.07

Artificial chromosome poised to pump up GM crops with extra genes- Oct.07

Algae-in-a-vat may power the future - Oct.07

Medicago starts production of self-assembled Influenza Virus-like particles in plants - Oct.07

Phytoremediation using molecular farmed plants - Oct.07

Dr. Hilary Koprowski's work on tobacco produced anti Cancer antigen - Oct.07

Prof. Henry Daniell's work on tobacco produced anti Anthrax vaccine - Oct.07

Greenovation and Sartorius Stedim to increase molecular farming moss facilities- Oct.07

Collplant, a developer of collagen from tobacco, to IPO in Israel ?- Oct.07

Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants- Oct.07

Molecular Farming and genetic modification seen key for future biofuels- Oct.07

US Dept. Agriculture's ARS test molecular farmed anti-mastitis protein in cows - Oct.07

Genetically modified Algae to produce Hydrogen for Biofuel- Sept.07

USA,- Conner announces plan to improve quality compliance of genetically engineered products - Sept.07

More on HIV vaccine in Tomatoes - Sept.07

Serbia and Denmark approve open field trials of RedDetect for finding landmines- Aug.07

Transgenic Maize - a safer source of collagen than animal waste- Aug.07

Japanese phytoremediation of Cadmium - Aug.07

Rubicon, Arborgen, International paper working on engineered trees- Aug.07

Tomatoes engineered to produce vaccine against HIV? - Aug.07

Biolex plans to list on a stock exchange - Aug.07

Molecular Tobacco shows promise for cleaning up soil contaminated with TNT - Aug.07

Super trees: The latest in genetic engineering - Aug.07

Discovery in plant virus may help prevent HIV and similar viruses - Aug.07

U.S. to mull changes to oversight of biotech crops - July.07

Change to gene theory raises new challenges for biotech - July.07

Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs - July.07

SemBioSys presents positive preclinical data on safflower-derived insulin - June.07

Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs - June.07

Greenovation receives first US patent for moss technology - June.07

Rice engineered to carry cholera vaccine - June.07

Effective cervical cancer vaccine from plants - June.07

Molecular farmed chicory brings hope to African malaria sufferers - May.07

Japanese Govt. set up R&D team to promote genetically-modified crops for biofuel - May.07

German scientists make biopharmaceutical production from plants easier - May.07

Maize / Corn stalks engineered to self-degrade into fuel - May.07

GM Eucalyptus trees in trial grown for energy uses. May-07

Ventria given permission to plant up to 3200 acres of Molecular Rice - May.07

New biotech companies rush to genetically engineer biomass for biofuel - May.07

Banana based edible vaccine for hepatitis B - May.07

Phycotransgenics - Molecular farming of algae - Apr.07