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Medicine may grow on trees

26 October 2015
Taking medicine in the future could be as simple as eating a sunflower seed. Professor David Craik, from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), will grow medicines in plants after receiving $1 million from the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations and trustee Perpetual.
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