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...scraggly cornstalks sprouting from pots in Andy Hiatt's laboratory don't look particularly unusual. But woven into their DNA is a tiny strip of mankind: a human gene that codes for an antibody to a sexually transmitted disease--genital herpes--that afflicts some 60 million Americans. When the corn plants mature and produce kernels, Hiatt's company, Epicyte Pharmaceutical of San Diego, hopes to turn them into a topical gel for herpes...
...proposed rules are not satisfying the critics or slowing the biopharmers. Open-air trials of pharmaceutical crops have taken place in 14 states, from Hawaii to Maryland. A Texas firm is selling a corn-bred enzyme that stimulates insulin production in diabetics. Clinical trials have begun for experimental crop-grown drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hepatitis B. "Molecular farming represents the pharmaceutical industry's best opportunity to strike a serious blow against such global diseases as AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer," says Francois Arcand, president of the Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals, held in Quebec...
...more than two-thirds of plant-based medicines are being tested in corn--a plant whose genetics is well understood. But the perils of using food crops became clear last December when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered the incineration of 500,000 bushels of soybeans in Aurora, Neb. The soybeans, from a plant used in everything from baby food and margarine to ice cream, were inadvertently mixed in a silo with corn that was genetically engineered by a Texas firm, ProdiGene Inc., to produce a vaccine against pig diarrhea. "Drugs have side effects," says Jean Halloran...
Hebei province, China's breadbasket, is a long way from Douglas Trett's mechanized, 4,000-acre corn, cotton, nut and wheat farm, north of Fresno, Calif. "I just came back from a field where a man was working barefoot with oxen," Trett says in a tone of wonderment, as if he has just returned from another planet...
...crab to one-pound servings King Crab legs. Lobsters are priced by the pound and come in a variety of sizes. The restaurant offers the option of turning basic steamed crab and lobster dishes into “New England Clambakes” by adding clam chowder, steamers, mussels, corn on the cob, coleslaw and watermelon to the order...