Colorado mountain towns rebound – and then some – from coronavirus
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Despite grim projections, many communities saw waves of in-state visitors
Saturday, April 10, 2021 9:49 AM Updated 5 hours 12 minutes ago Derailed Pour House, Fired Up Pizza, Switchback Taco Bar and Durango Rug Co. are just a few of the businesses in downtown Durango that have set up bump-outs in 2020 on Main Avenue. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file
Colorado mountain towns rebound – and then some – from coronavirus Derailed Pour House, Fired Up Pizza, Switchback Taco Bar and Durango Rug Co. are just a few of the businesses in downtown Durango that have set up bump-outs in 2020 on Main Avenue.
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The partnership will use the latest analytical tools and engineering biology approaches to enable cost-effective manufacturing of biological drugs.
FDB will work with the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and York to study and modify the commonly used Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell platform with the aim of making the manufacture of biological drugs easier and cheaper.
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