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Old 12-10-2004, 03:26 AM
Hari Vincent Seldon
 
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The product "Melange" from the planet Dune (Arrakis) !

Just a SciFi joke :-)

MVH

"Dirk Bussiere" skrev i melding
m...
am an MBA student (also, a Ph.D. in biochemistry) who is in the
process of writing a business plan as a class assignment. In the
context of this assignment, I was wondering if anyone might be
able to suggest natural products which fit the following criteria:

Natural products which a

1) Impossible, extremely difficult, or extremely expensive to synthesize

in bulk

2) Hard or inefficient to isolate from natural sources

3) Of commercial interest to pharmaceutical, vitamin, food, or cosmetic

industries

4) The biosynthetic pathway (genes) has been outlined

Number 4 is not absolutely necessary; #1-3 are. Suggestions would be
welcome.

-Dirk