A question for Chemical or Bio Engineers

SingaporeMacross SG

Any idea how interferon is produced in large scale? Google doesn’t help very much.

^tamago^ SG

see belowmentioned.

matrixeg SG

wtf is wrong with the marker

SingaporeMacross SG

argh!! it's useless info!! I'm going to strangle you!! Twisted Evil

^tamago^ SG

haha. relax.

"when a virus enters the body?"

enemychaser SG

wah, A1 answer + A1 marker = Pass wif fly-like-mad colours Rolling Eyes

gentlerock SG

I've got a degree in chemical engineering and I've never heard of interferon till now. Laughing

I've heard of money though....I know how money is produced. Embarassed

Anyway, are you talking about human body production when infected? If so, I think the specialised medical research professionals would be able to help better. It would be a case of very specialised study.

But since you're asking for engineers to answer, I guess you're more likely talking about industrial production? If so, it would probably be proprietary information and only the top guys at pharmaceutical companies would know.

DriftingGuy SG

Hmmm do u mean the industrial production of interferon or simply the industrial production process of pharmaceuticals in general?

If you meant the later, then it is very hard to tell you how it is done in a single post since pharmaceutical production is a multi-step, high value-added process.

I am not too sure about interferon but in general pharmaceutical production is different from the production of bulk chemicals as production yield is low, costly with huge amount of waste generated.

SingaporeMacross SG

i know how small scale production works. I need to know how they do it in large scale…

SingaporeMacross SG

thanks for the hint, but i know how the body produces it. i just want to know how it is done on an industrial scale..