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Baker’s yeast makes penicillin

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Dr Tom Ellis

Why is it important that, for the very first time, we have reengineered Baker’s yeast to manufacture penicillin? Our team at Imperial College, London, inserted fungus genes into a yeast cell to make it produce penicillin molecules and our results are published in the journal Nature Communications this week. The reason that this is exciting […]

Genetic engineering and MND

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi

Over the last 20 years, there have been tremendous strides in our understanding of motor neuron disease and ways to treat it. MND, which is also known as ALS, is a condition where there is progressive paralysis of muscles for speaking, swallowing, breathing and moving because of nerve degeneration. There is still no cure, but […]