(University of California – San Diego) Pharmaceutical companies could substantially reduce the expense of costly treatments for cancer and other diseases produced from mammalian or bacterial cells by growing these human therapeutic proteins in algae — rapidly growing aquatic plant cells that have recently gained attention for their ability to produce biofuels.

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