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Tue Sep 2

• Technology could make cheaper drugs | August | 2008 news: Costly drugs to treat conditions such as cancer and arthritis could be made more cheaply with a new technique that uses cell cultures removed from dead cells. Up to now, these medicines have been expensive to make due to the time-consuming , labor-intensiv e nature of developing them in cell culture. Scientists have streamlined this process using magnetic beads coated with special antibodies that bind to dead cells without harming the remaining healthy cells. A magnet is then used to draw the dead cells out, leaving the living cells to produce beneficial proteins more effectively. Removing dead cells can increase productivity of cell cultures by more than 100%."We are mimicking what happens in the body when scavenger cells remove dead and abnormal cells. If the dead cells are not removed, then this affects how healthy cells behave. "Not only will this make the production of drugs more efficient, it will also streamline research into new medicines which use cell culture."

Tue Aug 26

• Magnets used to make Drugs Cheaper: A team from the University of Edinburgh has developed an advanced method of making protein-based drugs. The drugs are created by growing cell cultures in the laboratory. Magnets are being used during the manufacturing process, this new process could make cancer and arthritis drugs much cheaper to make.

Thu Mar 1

• Chapter 12: Cell Cultures - Introduction

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