Gallery: Mutant Yeast Are Cranking Out Pharma's Next Superdrug
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Laura Walker, senior scientist, holds a flask containing billions of yeast antibodies.
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Flasks of yeast are shaken in a machine.
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One of Adimab's freezers containing frozen yeast and antibodies.
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A plate of yeast cultures.
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Various plates, tubes and flasks containing yeast, media and synthetic immune systems.
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Frozen yeast as it is being pulled out of a liquid nitrogren canister.
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Laura Walker holds Adimab's synthetic immune system in a tube.
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A robotic pipetting machine automates the process of pipetting media into 96-well plates.
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The front entrance of Adimab in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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