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Susana Camarero on how to exploit fungi's power
04 / 08 / 2021
Susana Camarero on how to exploit fungi’s power to make plant-based materials Dr. Susana Camarero and her group of Biotechnology for Lignocellulosic Biomass at the Center of Biological Research Margarita Salas (CSIC, Spain) study the enzymes that fungi use to degrade lignocellulose, the most abundant renewable biomass on earth. ...
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Christophe Danelon on constructing minimal cells that can evolve
16 / 06 / 2021
Christophe Danelon on constructing minimal cells that can evolve How does cellular life emerge from genetic information? Christophe Danelon and his team at Delft University of Technology construct the basic modules of a cell starting from genes inside lipid vesicles. By studying how these synthetic vesicles evolve in the lab, ...
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Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials
10 / 12 / 2020
Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials What if we could get cells to produce materials for us? Microfluidics is the technology of controlling soft and biological matter at a small scale. Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Baret and his team at the CRPP institute in Bordeaux create chips to ...
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Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products
09 / 12 / 2020
Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products What if we could transform the harmful CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere into useful products? Plants can filter CO2 from the atmosphere very efficiently, but also very slowly. Using synthetic biology methods, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb and his team at the Max ...
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The promise of synthetic cells
14 / 09 / 2020
The promise of synthetic cells Charlotte Koster from the Dutch consortium BaSyC explains how building a synthetic cell from scratch can lead to biological solutions that will make industry more sustainable:
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