Did I just read that?

from Science News: "Eighteen months ago, his group published data showing that randomly selected flakes extracted from cigarette filters and packages grew in a solution mimicking blood."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56721/title/Germs_in_tobacco_are_potential_source_of_respiratory_infections_blamed_on_smoking

New way to increase your tobacco output? Grow it in blood?  Nice.

(The article was about microbes from cigarettes, if you needed a hint about the intended meaning of the sentence.)