For instance, shortly after joining the WTO Beijing decided to target antibiotics as a growth sector and invested vast sums in building penicillin fermenters.
Peterson leans on some interesting technology (as well as old world techniques such as concrete fermenters) using sensors in the vineyard to measure exactly how much water is moving through the vine and the overall stress on the plant.
After obtaining from Genentech, Inc. the recombinant E. coli bacteria that contained the genetic blueprint for and that synthesized human insulin, they developed processes for the large-scale cultivation of the organism (in huge fermenters similar to those that make wine or beer) and for the purification and formulation of the insulin.