Common Sense for the Biochemist

Dow Agrisciences and Chlorogen announced two collaborations last Friday. Under the first, the two companies will work to develop technologies for the production of recombinant proteins in plant cell cultures. The second agreement focuses on the development of Chlorogen's chloroplast transformation technology for the introduction of proprietary traits in crop plants. This is not the first time Dow Agrisciences has dabbled in this type of technology. Dow ended a multi-year collaboration with Large Scale Biology in 2001. Revenues from this collaboration was $52 million for LSBC. It is good to see Dow investing in this type of technology again. Added 9/19/05 - Another note of interest is that the first collaboration involves the use of plant cell cultures, and not whole plants???