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Published online 29 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030825-6
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Humanised yeast produce healing proteins
Engineered cells might make cheaper medicines.
A humanised yeast that pumps out medicinal proteins could simplify drug manufacture.
Human proteins are increasingly used as medicines - erythropoietin for example, bolsters flagging red blood cells after cancer.
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