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Rolepaul · 12-12-2012, 04:09 PM

Biolex in Pittsboro North Carolina has pushed this concept for many years without success. The initial work at lab scale is easy, but getting it to commercial scale that is economical is much harder. There is a facility in San Diego that purifies the Xanthan used in food ingredients from kep, and another in Hawaii that did pharmaceuticals and biofuels from algae, but it is a hard thing to do. I know as this is my field. I do wish the product line luck, but it will be a tough place to go.

12-12-2012, 04:09 PM	#6
Rolepaul Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Boulder Colorado as of January 2013 Posts: 391	Re: A cheaper better way to manufacture herceptin, avastin, perjeta, TDM-1...Sheila w Biolex in Pittsboro North Carolina has pushed this concept for many years without success. The initial work at lab scale is easy, but getting it to commercial scale that is economical is much harder. There is a facility in San Diego that purifies the Xanthan used in food ingredients from kep, and another in Hawaii that did pharmaceuticals and biofuels from algae, but it is a hard thing to do. I know as this is my field. I do wish the product line luck, but it will be a tough place to go.