In ethnopharmacology, and especially in traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal plants
have been used for thousands of years. Similarly, agricultural plants have been used …

Biologics—medications derived from a biological source—are increasingly used as
pharmaceuticals, for example, as vaccines. Biologics are usually produced in bacterial …

Societal Impact Statement Therapeutic protein production in plants is an area of great
potential for increasing and improving the production of proteins for the treatment or …

Recombinant antibodies are highly specific detection probes in research, diagnostics, and
have emerged over the last two decades as the fastest growing class of therapeutic proteins …

Pharmaceutical excipients are compounds or substances other than API which are added to
a dosage form, these excipients basically act as carriers, binders, bulk forming agents …

Research on the biochemistry and molecular biology of lipids and lipoproteins has
experienced remarkable growth in the past 20 years, particularly with the realization that …

The concept of growing crops for health rather than for food or fiber is slowly changing plant
biotechnology and medicine. Rediscovery of the connection between plants and health is …

Plant Biochemistry, Fifth Edition, enables students to gain basic knowledge of the entire
field, from photosynthesis to genetic engineering and its many commercial applications …

Plants have had numerous biological, clinical, pharmaceutical and medicinal purposes for
many years; however, their use as a general platform for preparation of desired …

Plants are now gaining widespread acceptance as a general platform for the large-scale
production of recombinant proteins. The first plant-derived recombinant pharmaceutical …