Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2010-02-03

1) Flowers genetically manipulated to produce insulin.

For a few decades diabetes patients have been using human insulin grown in
E. Coli.  (Prior to that pig insulin was used.)

CTV is reporting scientists at the University of Calgary have figured out
a way to genetically manipulate safflower flowers to produce insulin.

  Each acre of safflower flowers could produce more than one kilogram of
  insulin, which could treat 2,500 diabetic patients for one year. That
  means just 16,000 acres of safflowers could meet the world's total demand
  each year.
  
  Now that the safflower insulin has passed through Phase 2 trials and
  found to be safe for use in humans, the next step is to test how well it
  works in those with diabetes.
  
  Phase 3 trials in Canadian patients are set to begin next year, which
  will be the real test of whether the work of the Calgary researchers
  really contains the seeds of another made-in-Canada discovery.