The silkworms 'vulnerability to the virus has allowed scientists to infect them with a baculovirus gene vector that enables the production of foreign proteins, turning the silkworms into an efficient and economical protein production platform.
因此以桿狀病毒作為基因載體，感染家蠶進而製造「外源蛋白」，便成為一種既有效率又經濟的蛋白生產平台。