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TROY, N.Y. Envisioning an animal-free drug supply, scientists have for the first time reprogrammed a common bacterium to make a designer polysaccharide molecule used in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Published today in
Nature Communications, the researchers modified E. coli to produce chondroitin sulfate, a drug best known as a dietary supplement to treat arthritis that is currently sourced from cow trachea.
Genetically engineered E. coli is used to make a long list of medicinal proteins, but it took years to coax the bacteria into producing even the simplest in this class of linked sugar molecules called sulfated glycosaminoglycans that are often used as drugs and nutraceuticals..
Share So far he s been pretty consistent with his sleeps and feeds, so we ve had a little bit of a routine. But we understand that s going to change at any second.
The couple, who met in 2011, announced they were expecting a baby in September. They announced Asher s arrival on Instagram on January 10.
Baby makes three! We re in the kitchen making a coffee and we ll be like, Hang on a minute, there s a baby in the other room! Simon, who joined The Wiggles in 2013, told WHO magazine I am so overcome with emotion and overwhelming feelings of love that it s impossible to put in to words everything I am feeling right now, Simon captioned a photo of Lauren and Asher in hospital.