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Article: OTHER NEWS TO NOTE.
- Article from:
- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- September 15, 2000
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Advanced Tissue Sciences Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., has been awarded a four-year grant in excess of $800,000 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to develop tissue- engineered human cartilage for the treatment of temporomandibular disorders.
Agritope Inc., of Portland, Ore., and Rohm and Haas Company, have joined forces to create a new plant transformation marker selection system for use in agricultural biotechnology. When fully developed, the transformation system will permit the rapid creation of improved plant varieties. With this new system, only transformed plants will produce an easily detected, naturally occurring plant compound ...