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In the past decade, advances in synthetic biology have paved the way toward the sustainable synthesis of complex natural products.
Dioxygen activations constitute one of the core issues in copper-dependent metalloenzymes. Upon O2 activation, copper-dependent metalloenzymes, including particulate methane monooxygenases (pMMOs), lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases ...
An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.
More than 60% of all drugs, including antibiotics and cancer treatments, are derived from natural products in the form of small molecules encoded by metabolic genes. These molecules often form complex chemical structures, ...
According to a study published in Microbial Cell Factories, a team led by Prof. Zheng Zhiming and associate Prof. Wang Peng from the Hefei Institutes of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has enhanced ...
Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common. But according to University of Cincinnati professor Andrew Steckl, an Ohio Eminent Scholar, leaps forward in technology in the former make him optimistic ...
The celebrated physicist Richard Feynman is credited with the quote, "What I cannot create, I do not understand." As well as informing Feynman's approach to theoretical physics, it's a good way of describing the motivations ...
Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral/synthetic fertilizers, new research suggests.
The building blocks of life-saving therapeutics could be developed in days instead of years thanks to new software that simulates evolution.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Hamburg have engineered bacteria with internal nutrient reserves that can be accessed when needed to survive extreme environmental conditions. The findings, published in ACS ...
