biopharming is a potential new industry at the boundary between medicine and food
another term for pharming (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
Corn, which is wind pollinated and therefore spreads its traits easily, is the crop of choice for biopharming.
As a result, calls for limits on biopharming are often met with cries of "no way" from farm-state politicians.
Last autumn, the issue came to a head when food manufacturers made public their concerns about food crops being used for biopharming.
Though biopharming is still in the experimental stage, the experiment has already seen twenty corporations and universities conduct more than 315 open-air field trials in undisclosed locations.
She notes that the drugs that biopharming promises to deliver can be gotten through other means.
Definition of biopharming in US English:
biopharming
nounˈbīōfärmiNG
biopharming is a potential new industry at the boundary between medicine and food
another term for pharming (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
She notes that the drugs that biopharming promises to deliver can be gotten through other means.
Last autumn, the issue came to a head when food manufacturers made public their concerns about food crops being used for biopharming.
Corn, which is wind pollinated and therefore spreads its traits easily, is the crop of choice for biopharming.
As a result, calls for limits on biopharming are often met with cries of "no way" from farm-state politicians.
Though biopharming is still in the experimental stage, the experiment has already seen twenty corporations and universities conduct more than 315 open-air field trials in undisclosed locations.