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Article: Genetics detects mine over matter.
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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It sounds like something from The X-Files or a Saturday Night Live skit -- glowing proteins that not only enhance food but detect land mines. That's one of the ideas behind a Greensboro company called Transgreenix Inc.
Transgreenix was founded by Neal Stewart, a UNC Greensboro professor specializing in plant biotechnology, and Eric Button, a UNCG grad who, at San Diego, Calif.-based Hybritech Inc., helped turn a test for prostate cancer into an international company.
The plan for Transgreenix is to use fluorescent proteins, which glow green under blue light, to mark and identify genetically altered plants. That would enable farmers to skip a two-day ...