System can be rapidly reconfigured to produce a variety of protein drugs. Biopharmaceuticals, a class of drugs comprising proteins such as antibodies and hormones, represent a fast-growing s... Read more
Cocaine, nicotine, capsaicin. These are just three familiar examples of the hundreds of thousands of small molecules (also called specialized or secondary metabolites) that plants use as che... Read more
Freeze-dried cellular components can be rehydrated to churn out useful proteins. Researchers at MIT and other institutions have created tiny freeze-dried pellets that include all of the mole... Read more
System would use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies. For medics on the battlefield and doctors in remote or developing parts of the world, getting rapid... Read more