[ Ссылка ] — This animation, produced by Bayer Icon Genetics in Germany, visualizes a medical first—the use of tobacco leaves as delivery systems to treat follicular lymphoma. The goal is to create a patient-specific vaccine that activates the patient's own immune system allowing malignant cells to be targeted and destroyed.
The animation shows how recombinant DNA, cloned molecules with correct genetic information, are delivered in vitro to the tobacco leaf. The correct genetic information, represented by the blue and white cylinder, is loaded into the AgrA bacteria, the bullet which penetrates the plant tissue delivering the new genetic information to the nucleus of the plant.
Then we see the nucleus releasing the transcribed genetic information into the cytoplasm, the plant's cell. Within a short time, the recombinant DNA, or immunoglobulin is visible on the leaf's surface, represented by the small blue white light structures. The protein is subsequently extracted from the plant leaf in very pure form. And from this harvested material, an idio type vaccine is created.
Bill Bradford and others in the trial, are receiving eight doses of the vaccination, a vaccination created with their very own correct genetic information. And so what you're seeing is the future of cancer treatment — personalized medicine that for now will assist traditional therapies like chemotherapy and radiation.
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