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Article: The state of biomanufacturing: North Carolina pursues an innovative, fast-growing industry that will bring large investments and high-paying jobs.
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Drive past a pond or lake in North Carolina in the summertime, and it will likely be lush with Lemna, a small, bright-green plant that lives on the water's surface and grows so fast that it might well be considered the aquatic equivalent of kudzu. Lemna is better known by its common name, duckweed. But whatever you call it, don't call it pond scum, or you'll risk offending the people who revere the plant for its potential ability to produce life-enhancing medicines for the treatment of cancer, hepatitis, blocked arteries, rheumatoid arthritis and other afflictions.
Those people include the more than 50 employees of Biolex Inc., a biotechnology company in ...