Claire Hendershot

Aug 30, 2024 | growbyginkgo.com | Claire Evans |Erika Szymanski |Claire Hendershot |Ian Woods

Studying biology, biotechnology, and synthetic biology is a regimented affair. People looking to learn about the possibilities of biotechnology, whether or not they even want to do it as a career, often can only access it through formal and expensive university education. Access to a biological future, as a result, is gated off by class and opportunity. A new generation of biologists, ecologists, and educators is looking to change that.

Aug 30, 2024 | growbyginkgo.com | Kaitlin Sullivan |Claire Hendershot |Britt Wray |Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Today, the majority of biologic drugs, including mRNA vaccines, are made in bioreactors. These glass or stainless steel vessels create a controlled environment for bacteria, yeast, insect, or Chinese hamster ovary cell lines to grow and divide. The process churns out nucleic acids, enzymes, antibodies and other recombinant proteins on a large scale. It’s the main, but not exclusive, way to produce biomolecules at scale.