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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Biz - novel biotech Photo of Santhosh Kallivalappil, owner of Novel Biotechnology Inc., in his lab Wednesday. Kallivalappil is working with a Gene synthesizer, a specialized machine to synthesis the human or bacterial gene in lab from nucleotides. This gene can be used for DNA therapy or mRNA vaccines Subject: Story about U of M scientist who left Winnipeg to work in the private sector and came back to start his own biotechnology firm – Novel Biotechnology – that has developed a promising technology platform that uses a new kind of bacteria that can produce material much faster for pharmecuetical companies developing vaccines and other therapeutics. See Cash story. Jan 17th, 2024