[MPWG] NEWS: Mission Hospitals Grant Will Enable Bent Creek Institute to Equip the Nation's First Genetic Repository for Medicinal Plants

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb572560.htm

Mission Hospitals Grant Will Enable Bent Creek Institute to Equip the 
Nation's First Genetic Repository for Medicinal Plants

Mission Health & Hospitals announced today that it has made a $50,000 
grant that will enable Bent Creek Institute to equip the nation's first 
germplasm, or genetic repository, for medicinal plants. Bent Creek 
Institute is a new, cutting-edge research organization whose mission is to 
discover medicinal treatments for disease based on plants and other 
organisms that are native to Western North Carolina, the most biodiverse 
region in North America. Unlocking the secrets of Western North Carolina's 
vast biodiversity through documented, peer-reviewed science is expected to 
provide results for use in alternative and complementary medical treatment 
of human disease, and to enable the region and its workforce to tap into 
international natural products commerce.

See the link above for the full Press Release.