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'Pharmers' hope for first plant drug harvest

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 10, pages 81–82 (2011)Cite this article

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An approval by the US Food and Drug Administration later this month for Protalix/Pfizer's plant-derived human therapeutic protein taliglucerase alfa would mark a first for 'pharmers'.

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Opar, A. 'Pharmers' hope for first plant drug harvest. Nat Rev Drug Discov 10, 81–82 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3369

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