Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment to perform desired cellular functions. Synthetic biologists have been able to reconstruct and mimic simpler ...
Biotechnology
Apr 18, 2019
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University of California, Berkeley, synthetic biologists have engineered brewer's yeast to produce marijuana's main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD—as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the ...
Biotechnology
Feb 27, 2019
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The synthetic biologists from Imperial College London have re-engineered yeast cells to manufacture the nonribosomal peptide antibiotic penicillin. In laboratory experiments, they were able to demonstrate that this yeast ...
Biotechnology
May 4, 2017
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2017
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A global research team has built five new synthetic yeast chromosomes, meaning that 30 percent of a key organism's genetic material has now been swapped out for engineered replacements. This is one of several findings of ...
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2017
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Biology is the world's greatest manufacturing platform, according to MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks.
Biotechnology
Aug 25, 2016
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New method allows production of expensive grapefruit aroma Nootkatone biotechnologically from cheap sugar using a 'turbo-yeast.' The versatile, healthy and tasty substance is used in soft drinks, pharmaceutical products or ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2015
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NYU Langone yeast geneticists report they have developed a novel tool—dubbed "the telomerator"—that could redefine the limits of synthetic biology and advance how successfully living things can be engineered or constructed ...
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2014
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The past few decades have seen enormous progress being made in synthetic biology – the idea that simple biological parts can be tweaked to do our bidding. One of the main targets has been hacking the biological machinery ...
Biochemistry
Sep 9, 2014
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Australia is to play a significant role in the quest for artificial life as it joins an international project to create the world's first synthetic yeast, we can announce today.
Biotechnology
May 27, 2014
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