Success in metabolically engineering marine algae to synthesize valuable antioxidant astaxanthin

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

A research group led by Professor HASUNUMA Tomohisa of Kobe University's Engineering Biology Research Center have succeeded in synthesizing the natural pigment astaxanthin using the fast-growing marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7002.

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