2. When a hamster rules the biopharma world
Discovery Matters
English - July 12, 2019 07:05 - 17 minutes - 17.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLife Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Little did you know, but a single hamster has been a force of innovation and massive biomedical production. Scientists devote entire careers to so-called CHO cells from this Chinese hamster’s ovary. Dodi and Conor meet a couple of them to figure out why this hamster rules the biopharma world.
Keywords: cells, protein, hamster, CHO, patient, dna molecules.