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From: swayne@reed.UUCP (Theresa Swayne)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: taxol in tissue culture
Keywords: taxol, cancer
Message-ID: <16467@reed.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 19:48:34 GMT
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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	Can the anti-cancer drug taxol be produced in tissue culture?  (It
is normally isolated from bark of the Pacific yew tree.)
	
	What, in your opinion, is likely to be the first practical way
of getting taxol without killing trees?

	Finally, is it known what taxol does for the tree?

	I'd like references if you have any.
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Theresa Swayne