Cypress Systems, Inc. is a

biotech Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

company headquartered in Madera, California and is best known for its research, in collaboration with the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

(NCI), regarding the use of selenium supplementation for the prevention of a variety of cancers.Effects of selenium supplementation for cancer pre...[JAMA. 1996] - PubMed Result
/ref> Cypress Systems, Inc. also manufactures selenium, zinc, and chromium for the nutraceutical industry. In 1983, the now-deceased Dr. Larry C. Clark conducted a Nutritional Prevention of Cancer (NPC) study. This historic trial claimed that selenium supplementation prevented a variety of cancers, a claim which has not been validated by later enquiry, as there is no good evidence selenium supplementation helps prevent cancer. The Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Cypress is

Mark Whitacre Mark Edward Whitacre is an American business executive who came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the Decatur, Illinois-based BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), he became the highest-level corporate executive i ...

. In the 1990s, Whitacre spent nine years in federal prison for embezzling over 9 million dollars from his former employer, ADM

Archer Daniels Midland The Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, commonly known as ADM, is an American multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation founded in 1902 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company operates more than 270 plants and 42 ...

. He embezzled the funds while he was working with the FBI as a whistleblower. He is the highest level executive of a

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company in US history to turn

whistleblower A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person, often an employee, who reveals information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent. Whi ...

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