Synthetic biology used to engineer new route to biochemicals
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
Living cells can make a vast range of products for us, but they don't always do it in the most straightforward or efficient way. Shota Atsumi, a chemistry professor at UC Davis, aims to address that through "synthetic biology:" designing and building new biochemical pathways within living cells, based on existing pathways from other living things.