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🦠 Ready for market: Engineered yeast boosts clean, cost-efficient chemical production
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Ready for market: Engineered yeast boosts clean, cost-efficient chemical production
Building on their success developing a cleaner way to make valuable organic acids, researchers from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have pushed one product closer to commercialization with a major upgrade in yield.

🚂 Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteins
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientists-evolution-rapidly-reprogram-proteins.html

Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteins
In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have developed a synthetic biology platform that accelerates evolution itself—enabling researchers to evolve proteins with useful, new properties thousands of times faster than nature.