Comment Re:5 years. at least. (Score 1) 92
Well, apparently I didn't make myself clear enough. I'll try using shorter words.
Simple doesn't mean cheap.
Hope that was clear. Purification costs are typically 2/3 of the COG for a biopharmaceutical. Oh crap, I used more jargon. Scientists in biochemistry labs., such as myself, may be brilliant and admirable, which apparently I'm not, but often they don't consider regulatory and industrial requirements when devising new protein production systems. Maybe they have indeed thought about it in this case, and hence the article's discussion of a 5 year wait which I was partially explaining after others expressed surprise. And trust me on the post translational modifications, they will be different. Maybe this is the wrong forum to be discussing this technology.
Simple doesn't mean cheap.
Hope that was clear. Purification costs are typically 2/3 of the COG for a biopharmaceutical. Oh crap, I used more jargon. Scientists in biochemistry labs., such as myself, may be brilliant and admirable, which apparently I'm not, but often they don't consider regulatory and industrial requirements when devising new protein production systems. Maybe they have indeed thought about it in this case, and hence the article's discussion of a 5 year wait which I was partially explaining after others expressed surprise. And trust me on the post translational modifications, they will be different. Maybe this is the wrong forum to be discussing this technology.
