Thursday, May 30, 2013

By their own words

Epicyte: Contraceptive Corn

And now for a commercial:

Firms like Prodigene and Epicyte were on the cutting edge of this new “pharming” paradigm, which created its own controversy. Prodigene was fined after two of its sites containing experimental drugs for HIV, hepatitis and other serious diseases accidentally contaminated some food crops headed for human consumption. Meanwhile, Epicyte raised eyebrows and anxious questions after developing contraceptive corn, an edible spermicide that produces sperm antibodies in both sexes.

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