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Dow, Exelixis pursue drugs from plants

January 9, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 2

Dow AgroSciences, in partnership with the University of Melbourne, has received a grant from the Australian Research Council to pursue development of plant-derived production systems for an avian flu vaccine. Meanwhile, Exelixis Plant Sciences and Washington State University Research Foundation have signed a licensing agreement under which Exelixis will use its expertise in cell production and metabolic engineering to advance WSURF's technology for producing paclitaxel and other pharmaceutical taxanes from plant cell culture.

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