Agriculture

North Carolina trying to lure medicinal tobacco research company

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 6th, 2002

North Carolina is trying to lure a biotech company from Virginia that develops genetically modified tobacco for medicine, a move officials said could increase demand for the leaf.

Economic development recruiters, lawmakers, politicians and farmers are backing efforts to give more than $3 million in aid to CropTech Corp. if it relocates in North Carolina.

Tobacco is suited well for such bioengineering because it is easily altered at the genetic level and grows quickly, project backers said. CropTech would set up facilities to process the altered tobacco and harvest proteins and other building blocks for new medicines.

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-03-06)

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