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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

2023/10/5
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What's Your Problem?

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Christina Smolke is the co-founder and CEO of Antheia. Antheia is a synthetic biology company -- they’re in the business of genetically engineering microorganisms to produce commercial products.

Christina’s problem is this: How do you turn yeast cells into tiny factories to create the active ingredients in generic drugs.** If Christina and her team solve this problem, they won’t solve the drug shortage problem entirely. But they might help make it better.

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