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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

Industrial Synthesis
Today many important protein drugs (e.g. growth hormone, erythropoetin, insulin) are produced in living cells. To facilitate easy purification, the proteins are provided with a signal peptide causing them to be secreted out of the cell.

For scale-up production, cells are grown in bioreactors.

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