Fermentation vessel for bacteria
Many proteins, particularly medicines, are produced by expressing the genes that encode them in bacteria. To obtain the proteins in industrial amounts, bacteria are grown in large fermentation vessels. They are then harvested, and the protein of interest is purified away from bacterial components.
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- 13 March 2014
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Peter Grotzinger, JNI Corporation Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
