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                                                                    Exhibit 23.1

                         CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

We have issued our report dated January 31, 2001 (except for the second
paragraph of Note 1, as to which the date is March 21, 2001 and except for the
fourth paragraph of Note 2, as to which the date is March 16, 2001),
accompanying the consolidated financial statements of Empyrean Bioscience, Inc.
as of December 31, 2000 and 1999 and for the years then ended, contained in the
Registration Statement under Form SB-2. We consent to the use of the
aforementioned report in this Registration Statement, and to the use of our name
as it appears under the caption "Experts."


                                        /s/ Grant Thornton LLP
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                                        GRANT THORNTON LLP

Cleveland, Ohio
June 22, 2001