Comparison of Cell Culture over Whole Plants for Biopharmaceutical Production

6 COMPARISON OF CELL CULTURE OVER WHOLE PLANTS FOR BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION 

One of the greatest advantages to the use of cell culture over that of open field for production of biopharmaceutcials is that issues such as containment or regulatory approval no longer have to be addressed. Variations in soil and weather prohibit GMP conditions that are indispensible for pharmaceutical production for field grown plants. On the contrary, cell suspensions can be grown in precisely controlled environments suitable for GMR In particular, when the protein can be secreted from cells, the 

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