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Start Over Topic keasling, jay Publication Year Range Last 50 years Region berkeley (calif.) Publisher springer nature
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1. Making the paper: Jay Keasling.

Subjects
*MALARIA treatment, *YEAST, *UNIVERSITIES & colleges
Abstract

The article describes how Jay Keasling, a synthetic chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his team have engineered yeast cells to produce an important precursor for a drug to treat malaria. Keasling collaborated with Amyris Biotechnologies and non-profit drug company Institute for OneWorld Health to try to complete the synthesis of artemisinin. The research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Published
2006
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