Up in Canada, students have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're using semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, as their test case. In a press release, the University of Ottowa revealed that some of its undergraduate students have invented a process that they're calling "Phytogene" to turn Nicotiana benthamiana, a leafy green closely related to tobacco, into a pharmaceutical factory. Building on so-called "biopharming," or the process of genetically engineering plants to produce pharmaceutical proteins, the group of students led by bioscience scholars Victor Boddy and Teagan Thomas

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