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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

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The Impact of Synthetic Biology on Endangered Species

Maghul: Most of you don't realize that we actually do impact endangered species in ways that you may not even think of it. Maghul: The blue protein used for every injectable drug or vaccine that you've ever had is called blue blood. It's harvested every year from horseshoe crabs on the East Coast, where one third of their blood is drained. Jynizer has converted all eight of our manufacturing quality control labs at the time to RFC and we've done that.

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