Tobacco Plants Used to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine

In an interview conducted by Technology Networks to the Scientific Research Director of British American Tobacco (BAT), David O'Reilly, PhD, it was confirmed that there was an undergoing preclinical testing for COVID-19 vaccine using tobacco plant as a "biomanufacturing factory". This simply means that tobacco plants were being used as a vessel where a key protein from the coronavirus is being processed so that it can be used in developing a vaccine.