The current standard method for producing proteins is mammalian cell culture, which does not allow for control of the sugar structures.

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The inability of the vaccine industry to react more swiftly to a single bad bacterial contamination underscores the need for a better manufacturing process, one using mammalian cell cultures.

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The Novartis drug suppresses a protein called MTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), which receives incoming growth signals from the surface of the cell and directs them to grow fatter, a necessary step before cell division.

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