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The result is surprising since the process does not work when used on "higher" plants.  It could yield a low cost alternative to culturing mammalian cells to produce the proteins.


Biotechnology: Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins

In collaboration with researchers at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the PhD student Marc Gitzinger carried out tests to see what happens when unmodified human or mammalian genes are inserted into the moss genome. They transferred the foreign, unmodified genes into the moss and discovered that the moss was easily able to manufacture the proteins encoded therein.