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August 15, 2005
Tobacco cures cancer
Lene Johansen reports on the tobacco plantations of Chlorogen Inc. Chlorogen's patented technology expresses proteins in the tobacco plant's chloroplast, the component of a cell that carries out photosynthesis. Plant-made pharmaceuticals is a platform technology for expressing a wide range of proteins, for use in drugs, vaccines, industrial production, and for food and feed purposes. The company's flagship product in development, is a cell-growth inhibitor for gender-specific cancers. Read more in Johansen's article Chlorogen closing in on $6 million funding round in the St. Louis Business Journal (registration required) on August 12th.
Posted by Waldemar at August 15, 2005 11:15 AM