Growing fuel and medicine: Advancing biofuels and plant-produced...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 10/26/2008 - 22:00

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Can biofuels produced from non-food plant products ever become a commercial reality?

Can plants be engineered to grow vaccines or anti-cancer drugs? These and other questions were explored by researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Arkansas Bioscience Institute at a symposium today at WPI.

The answer to these questions may soon be "yes" and teams from WPI and ABI are advancing the science and technology needed to reach those ends.

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