Pharmaceuticals from crab shells

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

The pharmaceutical NANA is 50 times more expensive than gold. Now it can be produced from chitin - a very cheap natural resource. The process was made possible by genetically modifying mold fungi.

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