Tobacco company to help fight cancer
24th Jan 2006, 19:23 GMT
Filed under: Drug A tobacco company is using funds in a most unusual manner, the company is raising millions of dollars to pursue cancer treatment using tobacco plants. The St. Louis, Missouri-based firm, Chlorogen, has discovered a way to get tobacco plants to produce a protein that kills cancer cells. By genetically manipulating the plant's chloroplasts, the tobacco plant then begins producing proteins which are used to fight cancer. The one hitch is that extracting the proteins is extremely expensive and the process yields only very small amounts of the proteins. The company has been steadily building patents for this innovative process and is hoping to someday help cancer patients worldwide. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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