Posts about Industrial Biotechnology

Piperonal Biosynthesis: Building a Biological Route to a Non-Natural Chemical

Industrial chemistry has a stubborn problem: some of the most commercially useful molecules do not exist anywhere in nature. No microbe makes them,[…]

Yeast Power: How Tiny Fungi Are Revolutionizing Biotechnology

Forget about lab-grown meat and synthetic diamonds. The next big thing in biotechnology might just be…yeast. Specifically, two types of yeast: Pichia pastoris[…]