PHARMING Definition & Meaning

pharming

[ fahr-ming ]

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noun

the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.

pharming

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noun

the practice of rearing or growing genetically-modified animals or plants in order to develop pharmaceutical products

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noun

the practice of redirecting computer users from legitimate websites to fraudulent ones for the purposes of extracting confidential data

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pharming¹

First recorded in 1990–95; from pharm(aceutical) ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ), modeled on farming ( def )

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pharming¹

C20: blend of pharmaceutical + farming

Origin of pharming²

C21: from farming in the sense of cultivating and harvesting; computer-hacker slang often replaces f with ph

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Pharming did not respond to questions about its treatment costs, and said it was committed to delivering therapies that make a difference to patients.

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Olive-McCoy and her husband were recently flown to Dallas to serve on a patient and caregiver advisory board for Pharming.

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Shire, Pharming and CSL Behring make the complex therapies for the genetic condition; the first was approved in the United States in 2008.

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The company, which has been selling non-core assets, said it had divested the North American rights to the hereditary angioedema drug, Ruconest, to Netherlands-based Pharming Group NV in deal worth up to $165 million.

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A competing approach called molecular "pharming" uses a plant instead of bacteria.

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