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Confusion swept over Principal Scientist Kim Joo-Yeon. It was the same for the other scientists. The department that had the worst performance at Lab One was the Plant-based Pharmaceuticals Research Department. Just like Young-Joon originally thought, this department was created to produce pharmaceuticals from plants. However, their initial goal was not to mass produce pharmaceuticals; it was just an attempt to become free from bacteria and viruses that usually infected animal cells.
“All that department has been doing for the past ten years is making vitamin-rich lettuce… You know that, right?” Hwang Chan-Mi asked.
“Of course,” Young-Joon replied.
They weren’t even purifying vitamins or anything, but just growing lettuce that was bred to contain a lot of vitamins. Honestly, it wasn’t much different from what the Health Food Department was developing. It was an awkward research direction considering that the name of their department was the Plant-based Pharmaceuticals Research Department.
“To be honest, the reason they have been doing that for ten years is because our lab has given up on making pharmaceuticals in plant cells,” Kim Joo-Yeon said.
“The Plant team said that during our meeting. I am thinking of restarting the business they gave up on,” Young-Joon replied while calmly nodding.
“But… Director, I’m sorry, but it’s not going to work well. I know this because my colleague who joined the company with me is the head of that department, but they all tried really hard back then. But it doesn’t work. The process of expressing genes in plants is very different...
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