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Instead of building another bioreactor facility, you can
express a therapeutic protein in:
• A hydroponic greenhouse outside a rural hospital.
• A vertical farm in a low-income urban
neighborhood.
• A modular container unit parked at the edge of a
refugee camp.
Here, the “bioreactor” isn’t a $20 million steel tank.
It’s a lettuce leaf.
Or a duckweed pond.
Or a rice paddock.
Once a gene construct is engineered and inserted into the
plant’s chloroplast DNA, production can begin. With each
plant cycle, proteins accumulate—inside leaves, stalks, or
vacuoles—awaiting harvest and stabilization.
This isn’t medicine made in distant labs.
It’s therapeutic agriculture—grown with sunlight, soil,
and sensors.
AI-Driven Agriculture Meets Precision
Biopharma
This isn’t a reversion to pastoral medicine. It’s the fusion of
two cutting-edge fields:
• Synthetic biology, where we program plants to
express complex human proteins.
• Artificial intelligence, which orchestrates every
variable in the production cycle.
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