Case Study: “Ventria Bioscience and the Controversy over Plant - Made Medicines” Introduction: Case overview Ventria Bioscience, a biotechnology firm based in California, faces the challenge of commercializing a product with potential and considerable public health benefits. Ventria had developed a ground-breaking technology using genetically modified (GM) rice to grow the proteins lactoferrin and lysozyme, both found in human breast milk, which can be used for the treatment of diarrhea in children
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Introduction: Case overview Ventria Bioscience founded in 1993 in Sacrament California by Dr. Raymond Rodriguez a Biologist with the University of California. The company wants to produce a rice product to grow a proteins Lactoferrin and Lysozyme, both are found in human breast milk and can be used to treat diarrhea in children, tourist, military and the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. (Lawrence and Weber, 2013, p. 515) The problem that was facing Ventria was getting it through the
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