To date, approved biopharmaceutical products are produced in a limited number of expression systems (in particular Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells) [ 1], but non-conventional systems are catching up [ 2].
A Meeting of Minds, Expertise, and Imagination European systems biology may have lagged a bit at first, but a rise in human networks--collaborations--and funding levels means European systems biology is catching up fast.
As the American financial system stumbles, however, Mr Obama is catching up.
In extending our health-care system, all we are doing is catching up with Otto Von Bismarck's Germany, which recognized a hundred and twenty-five years ago that universal health and disability coverage, along with old age pensions and a system of public education, were essential elements of a modern society.
In the United States, Delta Air Lines, which uses the Gogo air-to-ground system, is the leader in providing Wi-Fi on domestic flights, although Southwest Airlines — which uses a satellite-based system provided by Row 44, is "catching up fast," the report says.
"Catching Fire" is catching fire.
One well-known example of poor-country innovation is M-PESA, a mobile money-transfer system that started in Kenya and is catching on in Asia.More recently an Indian entrepreneur created Hike, a mobile-messaging app like WhatsApp and Viber, which lets smartphone users send messages using data connections, bypassing sms charges.
Homosexuality is catching.
China is catching up fast.
