Word: tobacco
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...information in the map of the human genome--a map that was officially declared complete last month--to create all manner of plant-based pharmaceuticals. Researchers have launched more than 300 trials of genetically engineered crops to produce everything from fruit-based hepatitis vaccines to AIDS drugs grown in tobacco leaves. They call this biopharming...
...Epicyte's spotless laboratory, Hiatt is taking no chances. Tiny tobacco leaves injected with herpes-antibody genes fill the incubators--a backup, he says, in case corn is outlawed. And the company is branching out, developing plant-grown antibodies to fight respiratory syncytial virus, treat Alzheimer's, battle weaponized Ebola and even attack sperm--a kind of biopharm birth control...
...ADOPTED. FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL, an anti-smoking treaty, the first-ever international public health measure; by 192 members of the World Health Organization; in Geneva. The convention binds its signatories to strict regulations on the advertising and sale of tobacco products within five years in an effort to reduce an annual toll of five million smoking-related deaths...
...with German inflation likely to fall to 0.8% in May, the European Central Bank will probably cut rates. And just wait until Eastern Europe joins up. Countries like Lithuania and the Czech Republic have been grappling with deflation for four straight months. A Wheeze Of Relief Stocks of tobacco companies lit up after a Florida appeals court overturned a $145 billion judgement against them, ruling that the individuals suing were too diverse to join in a single suit. The damage award, on behalf of about 500,000 smokers, was the largest in U.S. history...
Delawala said that after learning yesterday that the FBI was interviewing students who had witnessed the explosion, he went back to the building and answered brief questions from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent and an FBI agent...