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Engineering Plants to Produce New Compounds Thursday, January 22, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce entirely new compounds, some of which could be used as drugs against cancer and other diseases. The researchers, led by Sarah O'Connor of the Department of Chemistry, produced the new compounds by manipulating the complex biosynthetic pathways of the periwinkle plant. (source: web.mit.edu)
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