A chicken bioreactor for efficient production of functional cytokines

A recent article published in BMC Biotechnology explores the potential of transgenic chicken as a bioreactor for cost-effective production of pure, high quality, biologically active protein for therapeutics. See the social media coverage here.

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Both sections are now open for submissions.

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| 28 March 2019

Enhancing methane production using anaerobic co-digestion of waste activated sludge with combined fruit waste and cheese whey

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| 20 March 2019

Design of a generic CRISPR-Cas9 approach using the same sgRNA to perform gene editing at distinct loci

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High level transient production of recombinant antibodies and antibody fusion proteins in HEK293 cells

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Simplified production and concentration of lentiviral vectors to achieve high transduction in primary human T cells

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Simple and efficient site-directed mutagenesis using two single-primer reactions in parallel to generate mutants for protein structure-function studies

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BMC Biotechnology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the manipulation of biological macromolecules or organisms for use in experimental procedures, cellular and tissue engineering or in the pharmaceutical, agricultural biotechnology and allied industries.

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Joaquim M Cabral, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Dennis Claessen, Leiden University
Peter J Punt, TNO Microbiology & Systems Biology/Leiden University
Marko Radic, University of Tennessee
John J Rossi, Beckman Research Institute City of Hope
Igor Stagljar, University of Toronto
Neal C Stewart, University of Tennessee
Hyung Joon Cha, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Ting Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Characterisation of three novel α-L-arabinofuranosidases from a compost metagenome

Establishment of an erythroid progenitor cell line capable of enucleation achieved with an inducible c-Myc vector

FlexiBAC: a versatile, open-source baculovirus vector system for protein expression, secretion, and proteolytic processing

Enhancing methane production using anaerobic co-digestion of waste activated sludge with combined fruit waste and cheese whey

Design of a generic CRISPR-Cas9 approach using the same sgRNA to perform gene editing at distinct loci

An efficient one-step site-directed deletion, insertion, single and multiple-site plasmid mutagenesis protocol

FastCloning: a highly simplified, purification-free, sequence- and ligation-independent PCR cloning method

High level transient production of recombinant antibodies and antibody fusion proteins in HEK293 cells

Simplified production and concentration of lentiviral vectors to achieve high transduction in primary human T cells

Simple and efficient site-directed mutagenesis using two single-primer reactions in parallel to generate mutants for protein structure-function studies

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