New insight of medical and molecular farming (MMF): the plants derived drugs

In the last years, research has revolutionized the use of valuable proteins for a variety of treatments and their production became possible since several genes can be efficiently expressed in many different biological systems.1 The expression systems so far available offer different advantages for the preparation of the recombinant proteins, in general, the optimal technical approach should guarantee the safety, the biological activity and the economic production. Molecular Farming, is a term indicating the technology for the production of high-value compounds in transgenic animals, and it is nowadays used to refer to the production of pharmaceutically important and commercially valuable proteins in plants.2