Posted on 06/20/2003 7:48:34 AM PDT by FairWitness
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:34:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a twist on the "Little Shop of Horrors," with its blood-eating plant, a Creve Coeur startup is developing a way for tobacco plants to produce human plasma.
Chlorogen Inc., which recently set up shop in the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise incubator, is commercializing technology that uses the cells in tobacco leaves as a factory for pharmaceutical proteins.
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