Tobacco Plant to the Rescue
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Chapters
0:00
Intro
1:22
What is pharming?
1:53
How do you get plants to make medicine?
2:55
Monoclonal antibodies.
3:38
Using mice genes to make Ebola monoclonal antibodies.
4:20
Review the immune system in Viral Attack comic at AAB.
4:55
Why use tobacco plants?
6:15
Making a plant virus.
6:40
Was the ZMapp drug quick or easy to make?
8:29
Did you expect ZMapp to be in use already?
9:16
How long does it take to get a drug approved?
9:52
The details of Ebola.
10:39
Can you use tobacco for good things other than medicine?
11:53
Fast-growing tobacco.
12:24
Are there other plants that are good for pharming?
13:16
Carrots, tobacco... any other plants?
14:38
What else can we use plants for?
16:15
Is there an advantage to growing the plant locally?
17:27
The history of plants in medicine.
18:30
Basic research vs. applied.
19:03
How do you move a project from basic research to applied research?
20:25
Applied research depends on basic research.
20:50
Do you think biology is more collaborative now than it used to be?
21:23
Collaborators involved in this project.
22:50
Plants and personalized medicine.
25:12
Three questions.
25:19
When did you know you wanted to be a biologist?
26:45
What would you do if you could not be a biologist?
27:25
What advice do you have for future biologists?
28:26
Sign-off [Tobacco's Wild Ride]
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Tobacco Plant to the Rescue
Aug 06, 2015
Episode 76
Dr. Biology Talks with Charlie Arntzen
How does the tobacco plant go from villain hero? After all, tobacco has been shown to be the leading cause of lung cancer, and its use increases the chances of many other cancers. Dr. Biology catches up with Charlie Arntzen, a biologist and pharmer (no, that is not a misspelling), who has been using the tobacco plant as a tool to develop drug treatments.
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