MIT chemists engineer plants to produce new drugs

Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 08:40 in Biology & Nature

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering them to produce unnatural variants of their usual products...

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