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Supercharging Protein Manufacture [Preview]

A career deviation leads to a dynamic approach to producing biotech drugs

By Gary Stix















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FERMENTER: A GlycoFi vessel is where protein-based drugs will be made in yeast. Image: GlycoFi

Tillman U. Gerngross came to Dartmouth College in the late 1990s as a tenure-track professor who wanted to study "green" plastics derived from plant-derived sugars. His first major project centered on performing an analysis of the costs and benefits of these supposed materials of the future.




This article was originally published with the title Supercharging Protein Manufacture.



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