Visit the Midday Edition homepage  UC San Diego Researchers
Create A 'Designer' Cancer Drug With Algae  December 10, 2012
1:01 p.m.   Stephen Mayfield, Ph.D., a professor of biology at
UC San Diego and director of the San Diego Center for Algae
Biotechnology  Scott Lippman, director of Moores Cancer Center
at UC San Diego.  Related Story: UC San Diego Researchers Create
A 'Designer' Cancer Drug With Algae    MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Coming
up, researchers at San Diego say that algae is helping produce
life-saving jobs faster and cheaper than traditional methods. It
is 12:23 and you are listening to KPBS Midday Edition. This is
KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. The potential that
algae can be used as a biofuel has been treating scientists for
years. Another use for the aquatic organisms could revolutionize
the treatment of disease. Biologists at UC San Diego are
announcing today they've succeeded in engineering algae that it
produces a drug for use in cancer treatment. Joining me to
discuss how this was do