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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine
Season 1 · Episode 71

Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

What's Your Problem?

October 5, 202323m 44s

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Show Notes

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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