(Independent Sentinel)—Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company which funded Moderna mRNA, unveiled Terrana Biosciences™. It is a company pioneering RNA-based agricultural solutions to deliver protective and enhanced crop traits. Allegedly, it does this without altering the plant genome.
They are going to start spraying our crops with mRNA.
Flagship’s website says:
“At Flagship Pioneering, we build groundbreaking platforms that address the world’s most pressing challenges. With Terrana, we are bringing an entirely new dimension of innovation to agriculture through similar RNA technology that we pioneered in human health,” said Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Terrana, Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. “This approach will empower farmers with precise, adaptive solutions to combat threats to crops in fields and orchards and enhance resiliency, sustainability, and productivity in the global food system,” Afeyan says.
“Think of it like software,” Terran Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Rapp explained. “You can stick a floppy disk or USB drive into the computer and give it a set of instructions. This is the first time we’ve had a platform where we can actually do this in plants.”
Programmable plants. Terrana Biosciences’ team is packed with big names in big-Ag and big-Pharma. That is supposed to be a plus.
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