This story is featured in Animal Pharm Issue 634
Plant cells could hold the key to developing a new class of vaccines able to help control existing and emerging animal diseases, Dow AgroSciences' veterinary immunologist Dr Jennifer Rice told a meeting in Brussels last month. 
Dr Rice addressed the European Parliament hearing on the new Animal Health Strategy last month, a meeting which Dow AgroSciences sponsored. The world needs to control animal pathogens, she began, to protect human health, ensure food security and safety and for animal welfare reasons.
Vaccination, based on the science pioneered by Edward Jenner in the 1870s, had enabled the cowpox and smallpox diseases to be eradicated, and played an important role in controlling many other pathogens.
Dr Rice described the conventional types of vaccine, using live or inactivated products. While these technologies were effective, and had helped the world control important virus diseases such as rabies and wild poliovirus, there were limitations to their effectiveness....
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