{"id":13509,"date":"2021-10-30T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:53:46","slug":"uc-riverside-seeks-to-deliver-mrna-vaccines-through-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/uc-riverside-seeks-to-deliver-mrna-vaccines-through-lettuce\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Riverside seeks to deliver mRNA vaccines through lettuce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines\">press release dated September 16, 2021<\/a>, the federal government has given $500,000 in tax dollars to UC Riverside and collaborating researchers at UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University in order to figure out how to \u201cturn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIdeally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person,\u201d said Juan Pablo Giraldo of UC Riverside, as quoted in the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,\u201d Giraldo said. \u201cFarmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All of my Yard Posts are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/list-of-yard-posts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release dated September 16, 2021, the federal government has given $500,000 in tax dollars to UC Riverside and collaborating researchers at UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University in order to figure out how to \u201cturn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.\u201d \u201cIdeally, a single plant would produce enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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