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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

FromWhat's Your Problem?


Getting Yeast to Make Medicine

FromWhat's Your Problem?

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Christina Smolke is the co-founder and CEO of Antheia. Antheia is a synthetic biology company -- they’re in the business of genetically engineering microorganisms to produce commercial products.
Christina’s problem is this: How do you turn yeast cells into tiny factories to create the active ingredients in generic drugs. If Christina and her team solve this problem, they won’t solve the drug shortage problem entirely. But they might help make it better.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there. How do you take a drone delivery service you’ve built in Rwanda and make it work in North Carolina? How do you convince people to buy a house on the Internet? How do you sell thousands of dog ramps to weiner dogs all across America when a pandemic breaks the global supply chain?  Hosted by former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein, What’s Your Problem helps listeners understand the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.