Biomaterials from Microbial Chitin
In a world where plastic pollution is rampant, sustainable biomaterials have become increasingly important. An Nguyen, a doctoral student...
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Microbial Self-healing Materials
As we step into the fast-paced world of fashion, the demand for sustainable materials goes beyond the obvious. The need for new solutions...
Accelerating drug discovery with AI
The production of new drugs is complex and time-consuming, but the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to reduce costs...
New pathways for microbial pigments
In a world without colors, life would be dull and uninspiring. Yet nearly all of the colors we use in our daily lives come from pigments...
Predicting the future catalytic activity of enzymes
Enzymes are nature's own biocatalysts and are involved in almost all the processes in the cycle of life in all biological systems....
AI assited enzyme design for improved bioplastics
Fossil-based plastics have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, from the products we use on a daily basis to the infrastructure we...
Mechanism of assembly of biological materials inside cells
One of the future impacts of synthetic biology will be biosynthetic production in microbes of materials such as silk or composites that...
Reinforcement learning for microbial strain design
Post-docoral researcher Maryam Sabzevari’s research deals with using artificial intelligence (AI) to design cell factories. Synthetic...
Expansin-like proteins for bio-based materials engineering
Lignocellulose and chitin, the most abundant polysaccharide resources in the world, could be used to replace oil in production. Taru’s...
New Bioplastics with Microbes
Research scientist Anna Ylinen is doing her doctoral thesis at the Center for Young Synbio Scientists on microbial bioplastics. They can...
Making Wood Without Trees – Even In Space!
Last year, for the first time ever, Japanese scientists were able to produce nanocellulose in space. In layman's terms, they managed to...
The Living Cell Factory
To stay competitive, industries need to increase their productivity. Typically this is done by improving the process of manufacturing,...
A dental revolution? Super strong materials inspired by nature
Tooth implants, although a great improvement over false teeth, are far from perfect. Expensive and time-consuming to manufacture, they...
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