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To: LTK007 who wrote (28994)	2/10/2002 8:04:16 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 99280

None that I know. Zeev

To: LTK007 who wrote (28994)	2/10/2002 11:57:29 AM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 99280

it was a feature in CBS national news---extremely impressive--actually something that could make wads of money.I am going to do a search this afternoon.What was impressive was both these companies were way beyond theory,they were already in production.They kept refering to the plastic corn company as PLsomething---guess i will run search with "plastic corn" as key phrase.

To: LTK007 who wrote (28994)	2/10/2002 12:07:37 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

Biotechs Show New Products Dan Rather, Wyatt Andrews 02/07/2002 CBS News: Evening News with Dan Rather (c) Copyright Federal Document Clearing House. All Rights Reserved. "Eye on America": Biotechs show new products. DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: Tonight`s "Eye on America" takes you inside the biotech revolution. Scientists still can`t make a silk purse out of a sow`s ear, but wait until you see what they can make out of the kernels in an ear of corn. And as CBS`s Wyatt Andrews reports, it is just the beginning. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) WYATT ANDREWS, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What if we told you the future of manufacturing was still in plastic, but not plastic from petroleum? PAT GRUBER, CHEMIST, CARGILL DOW: Those are the plastic pellets. That`s what we would package and then sell. ANDREWS: This is biotech plastic , made from corn . You made that from the starch of a corn kernel? GRUBER: That`s originally the raw material, right. ANDREWS: The inventor, Pat Gruber, a chemist at Cargill Dow, showed us the array of products now being made from a corn-based plastic called PLA. Golf balls, yogurt cups, clothes. Buy a Coke at the Olympics and the cup will be PLA. And once this PLA plant goes on line in Nebraska, Gruber says you`ll be sleeping and walking on PLA. GRUBER: And I see carpet, I see the upholstery, I see the bedding, I see the mattresses. ANDREWS: Now see if you can see this. This is strong? JEFFREY TURNER, NEXIA: Yes, this is very, very strong. ANDREWS: Jeffrey Turner is holding another new biotech material. It`s also a fiber, but this isn`t corn. This is spider silk. TURNER: Man has never been able to produce this type of material before. ANDREWS: Turner`s company, Nexia, and the U.S. Army believe biotech spider silk is so strong, it will make a better bulletproof vest. TURNER: That`s really the holy grail of ballistics protection. ANDREWS: Spider silk? TURNER: Spider silk. ANDREWS: And Nexia`s production factory is this goat farm. Using genetic engineering, Nexia put a spider gene into the goats. And if it works, these spider goats will make usable silk protein in their milk. You`re going to mass produce spider silk? TURNER: That`s correct. We`re actually in the process of doing that now. ANDREWS: In goat`s milk? TURNER: Commercializing and industrializing the mass production of recomitant spider silk. ANDREWS (on camera): These advances are part of a coming era of what`s called industrial biotechnology, a revolution in which very high- tech materials, fabrics and plastics, come from raw materials here on the farm. (voice-over): The impact of this revolution is energizing the nation`s farmers. Gerald Tumbleson can now sell his corn crop for industrial products like the shirt he is wearing. That`s not a cotton shirt? GERALD TUMBLESON, CORN GROWER: Nope, it`s not a cotton shirt. Partially cotton, partially corn starch. ANDREWS: More important, spider fibers and corn-plastic can replace goods now made from petrochemicals. Do you see your industry one day competing with oil? TUMBLESON: One day started about two years ago. ANDREWS: The bonus of this industrial revolution is there is no shortage of fuel. Cargill-Dow will draw on the immense surplus of corn sitting in the nation`s silos. Nexia`s goats will run on the fuel of hay. In Plattsburgh, New York, Wyatt Andrews for "Eye on America." (END VIDEOTAPE) THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Content and programming Copyright 2002 CBS Worldwide Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Transcription Copyright 2002 FDCH-eMedia (Federal Document Clearing House, Inc. -eMediaMillWorks, Inc.), which takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the transcription. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation.