Talk:Jay Keasling

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I noticed a possible error under the Artemisinin section. See the following excerpt: Keasling’s microbial production process has a number of advantages over extraction from plants. First, microbial synthesis will reduce the cost of artemisinin, the most expensive component of artemisinin-based combination therapies—by as much as ten fold—and therefore make artemisinin-derived anti-malarial drugs more affordable to people in the Developing World. Second, weather conditions or political climates that might otherwise affect the yield or cost of the plant-derived version of the drug will not affect the microbial source for the drug. Third, microbial production of artemisinin in large tanks will allow for more careful distribution of artemisinin to legitimate drug manufacturers that formulate artemisinin combination therapies, rather than monotherapies. This will, in turn, hasten the development of resistance to this drug. Fourth, severe shortages of plant-derived artemisinin are projected for 2011 and beyond, which will increase the cost of artemisinin combination therapies. Finally, microbially-derived artemisinic acid will enable production of new derivatives of artemisinin that Plasmodium may not be resistant to, thereby extending the time over which artemisinin may be used.

Shouldn't the use of combination therapies  slow  the development of resistance to a drug? Someone needs to check the source for this (if any) Junkmunch (talk) 19:26, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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Synthetic Biology Department?
The article says that he is "Founding Director of the Synthetic Biology Department at UC Berkeley". I don't actually think there /is/ a Synthetic Biology department at UC Berkeley. There is a Synthetic Biology concentration in the BioEngineering department, there is SynBERC, and there is the Synthetic Biology Initiative... is it one of these? --71.198.143.141 (talk) 06:53, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

assessment
c class per ores https://ores.wmflabs.org/v2/scores/enwiki/wp10/789660476 Brock-brac (talk) 19:57, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

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