Stanford Scientists Produce Cancer Drug From Rare Plant in Lab to Benefit Human Health
16th September 2015
Now Elizabeth Sattely, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, and her graduate student Warren Lau have isolated the machinery for making a widely used cancer-fighting drug from an endangered plant. They then put that machinery into a common, easily grown laboratory plant, which was able to produce the chemical. The technique could potentially be applied to other plants and drugs, creating a less expensive and more stable source for those drugs.
September 17th, 2015 at 03:44
I notice the article wrote “molecular machinery’ over and over instead of ‘genetic engineering’ so as not to frighten Greens.
September 17th, 2015 at 03:51
Greens are a simple and unsophisticated people, and easily frightened.