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 Health & Beauty | October 2006 
Arizona, Mexican Universities to Work on First Joint Project
 Associated Press
| | Both universities' presidents set up a joint fund for the experiment. |
Arizona State University and a Mexican university are teaming up for their first joint research project to produce cheaper cancer and anemia medications.
Researchers at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico will produce alfalfa for the two-year, US$100,000 (€79,000) experiment.
Guy Cardineau, a professor at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, will use that alfalfa to produce recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor, or rhG-CSF, a protein used in treating anemia and cancer.
The protein already is produced through bacterial fermentation in E. Coli and in cultures of Chinese hamster ovary cells. But Cardineau hopes to dramatically cut the cost of production by growing the protein in alfalfa tissue instead.
"We think the cost of protein produced in plants is far less than protein produced in other systems," he told The State Press of Arizona. "The trade-off is how much protein we can make, and if we can be competitive."
Both universities' presidents set up a joint fund for the experiment.
TEMPE, Arizona Arizona State University and a Mexican university are teaming up for their first joint research project to produce cheaper cancer and anemia medications.
Researchers at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico will produce alfalfa for the two-year, US$100,000 (€79,000) experiment.
Guy Cardineau, a professor at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, will use that alfalfa to produce recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor, or rhG-CSF, a protein used in treating anemia and cancer.
The protein already is produced through bacterial fermentation in E. Coli and in cultures of Chinese hamster ovary cells. But Cardineau hopes to dramatically cut the cost of production by growing the protein in alfalfa tissue instead.
"We think the cost of protein produced in plants is far less than protein produced in other systems," he told The State Press of Arizona. "The trade-off is how much protein we can make, and if we can be competitive."
Both universities' presidents set up a joint fund for the experiment. |
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