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“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.” -NikolaContinue reading “Scale-up of Bioreactors: Revisiting the Heuristics”

“I believe that thirty million of these animalcules together would not take up as much room, or be as big, as a coarse grain of sand.” –Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, 1632 to 1723 The advent of biotechnology marked one of the greatest revolutions in the history of mankind, undeniably the biggest one since the industrial revolutionContinue reading “Scale-Up of Bioreactors: Have You ‘Understood’ Your Assets Yet?”