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Ventria's technology platform ExpressTec - a proprietary protein/peptide production system - is designed to create innovative human health products. ExpressTec uses self-pollinating crops (rice and barley) as the production host for these products, bypassing many of the technological constraints inherent in other protein production methods. The following are key benefits of ExpressTec:

• Economically advantaged expression capability (e.g. 10g/kg of brown rice).
  
• Proven scalability for large volumes of recombinant proteins/peptides with minimal capital investment compared with other systems.
  
• Free of infectious or toxic contaminants.
  
• Self-pollinating crops provide a safe and closed production system.
  
• Efficient supply management - the protein/peptide can be stored in its lowest cost form for multiple years.
  
• Utilizes a proven production and processing infrastructure.

Ventria has been able to use the ExpressTec production system as a basis for forming more specialized systems which produce specific molecules. These platforms include ExpressPro™ for production of proteins, ExpressTide™ for production of peptides and ExpressMab™ for production of monoclonal antibodies.

ExpressTec has proven its versatility using these platforms to express the following range of molecules:

• Large molecules (larger than 50 kD)
  
• Small molecules (less than 10 kD)
  
• Multiple sub-unit molecules (e.g. fibrinogen)
  
• Structural/functional proteins or enzymes
  
• Products resulting from metabolic engineering