First, for those who have not heard the term “Molecular Farming,” it is the genetic engineering of plants to produce totally new-use, non-food products. We define the two types: Medical and Non-Medical.

Medical Molecular Farming is the growing and harvesting of genetically engineered crops of transgenic plants, with the object of producing biopharmaceuticals The idea is to use these molecular crops as biological factories to generate drugs difficult or expensive to produce in any other way. Combining plant genetics, molecular biology and gene delivery, scientists take genes from other sources, such as micro-organisms, and splice them into the plant's genome. During normal growth these genetically engineered plants synthesize “recombinant” proteins which can be Therapeutics, Vaccines, Blood substitutes, Enzymes or Diagnostics which are then extracted from the crop.

Non-Medical Molecular Farming includes Industrial Enzymes and Polymers. Potentially the biggest development in this field could be the development of transgenic plants growing biodegradable plastics. (Think of the amount of annual waste saved globally.) Other uses will be as Industrial oils such as hydraulic oil or biodiesels, new solid biofuels, new fibres and papers, new biochemicals, and as agents for Bioremediation and Phytoremediation.  

MolecularFarming.com is a global venture which aims to help this industry grow and expand safely. Our unique Global Database is being developed to help Biopharmaceutical and Bioproduct companies source contract growers in environmentally safe locations, not only for field trials, but for future full-scale commercialisation. We seek greenhouse growers and crop farmers, who would be willing to become contract growers,  to join the Database [free]

Our Mission: The world needs and is going to have Molecular Farming, but it needs it in a way that does good, not harm. This is our mission: a better, healthier World through safe, environmentally friendly, properly regulated and controlled Molecular Farming. By providing a method, through the Database, for Biopharmaceutical companies to contact contract growers, farmers and greenhouse owners, we will assist this development globally.

Our Web site has information on history, technology, description and news about products under development, and is for public, farmer, student and Biopharma.company use.

We have recently offered two University professors their own pages free on our site, and would be interested in doing the same for any other eminent researchers in this field. We are currently looking for Universities world-wide offering courses, and will help them by advertising their courses free. We also advertise related Conferences and Forums free. If you feel that you can offer us research, or that we can advertise anything for your institution,  if you need help in locating a potential contract grower for your new use transgenic crop, or if you want to join the Global list of farmers already on the Database, please contact us.

MolecularFarming.com

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