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This makes rice a long-haul platform—ideal for:

• National immunization programs
• Chronic therapy distribution in underserved
populations
• Global partnerships involving WHO, GAVI, or
UNICEF
• Health equity initiatives requiring low-cost, low-
maintenance, high-trust solutions

Summary: The Strategic Backbone of Edible Biologics

If lettuce is the lab-ready express lane—ideal for clinical
validation, preclinical exploration, and high-yield
chloroplast expression. And if duckweed is the modular
urban farm—perfect for flexible, containerized, rapid-
response production—

Then rice is the long-haul biologics infrastructure:

• Stable
• Scalable
• Globally familiar
• And deeply integrated into the places where the
next billion patients will live, eat, and heal

Rice isn’t just a plant.
It’s a platform for access.

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