Turning biotech inventions into real products
Turning a brilliant biotech invention into a real product can be prohibitively expensive – even a modest molecular biology lab can cost millions to set up. With a set of grants and labs ready for the taking, a research foundation in Bucks County has entrepreneurs flocking. WHYY’s health and science reporter Kerry Grens paid a visit to the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center and filed this report.
Turning a brilliant biotech invention into a real product can be prohibitively expensive – even a modest molecular biology lab can cost millions to set up. With a set of grants and labs ready for the taking, a research foundation in Bucks County has entrepreneurs flocking. WHYY’s health and science reporter Kerry Grens paid a visit to the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center and filed this report.
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