Over the past 11 years, Pfeifer's research has focused on manipulating E. coli so that the organism produces all of the materials necessary for
creating erythromycin.
Not exact matches
Fussenegger
created his biological calculator by engineering an embryonic kidney cell to respond to two different chemicals:
erythromycin (an antibiotic) and phloretin (a compound found in apple trees).
«We have not only
created new analogs of
erythromycin, but also developed a platform for using E. coli to produce the drug,» he said.
The filter disks circled in red hold new forms of
erythromycin created by University at Buffalo researchers, and the dark halo around them indicates that the drug has seeped out of the disk to kill the surrounding bacteria.