Chinese yeast factory boosts cancer drug production speed 1,000 times
A research team at Zhejiang University has cracked a molecular puzzle, turning ordinary yeast into a powerful factory for an expensive cancer drug and boosting its production by a thousand times. The anticancer drug vinblastine has long been sourced exclusively from the Madagascar periwinkle plant. But it takes 2 tonnes of dried leaves to yield just 1 gram of vinblastine, making it more expensive…
We haven't written up this one. Reuters Business via SCMP has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
This story
This is one outlet's version. Read the fullest account.
