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Far from being just waste, stems are increasingly seen as a valuable by-product in cigarette manufacturing and related industries

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For that reason, he is collaborating with Henry Daniell, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the studys coauthors, with a plan to genetically engineer lettuce plants for producing artemisinin

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