Replies to post #146137 on Biotech Values

[biotech jim]

Making a bio-engineered version of IVIG?

I'd put that in the "much harder than a successful manned mission to Mars" category.

I agree that it is mighty difficult. And how hard is even an unmanned landing on Mars, you might ask? See below video.

[DewDiligence]

I'd put that in the "much harder than a successful manned mission to Mars" category. :)

I would suggest that you’re misconstruing what zipjet was inquiring about in #msg-77924742. Inasmuch as IVIG is a mixture of thousands of individual antibodies, a fully recombinant IVIG at production scale is all but impossible.

I think what zipjet wanted to know was whether any company has a development program to substantially boost the yield of an IVIG-like product through biotechnology, compared to ordinary IVIG. As noted in #msg-77927330, the answer to this question is yes.