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is closing in: demand for petrol has actually fallen, and there is growing interest in
alternatives such as battery-powered cars. Cellulosic ethanol may now be arriving, but its …

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When Paris-based pharmaceutical giant Sanofi started to sell malaria drugs made with the
help of genetically engineered yeast in 2014, the move was hailed as a triumph for synthetic
biology. The yeast was fermented in a vat to produce a chemical that Sanofi converted into …

Substrates containing aromatic rings have been attached to 'polymer supported
triphenylphosphine'using a chromium carbonyl linker, chemically manipulated, and released
from the polymer to demonstrate the use of π-arene chromium complexes as traceless …

But a growing band of chemists is now trying to free the field from its artisanal roots by
creating a device with the ability to fabricate any organic molecule automatically.“I would
consider it entirely feasible to build a synthesis machine which could make any one of a …

Sprawled across a vast site on the river Rhine in Germany is a small city built from glittering
steel: the headquarters of chemical giant BASF. Boasting a daytime population of about
50,000 people, it is criss-crossed by a grid of streets bearing names that commemorate the …

Mr G gazes out from a recruitment poster hanging in an engineering building in Cambridge,
UK. His cartoon cape billows out behind him, his sketched-in muscles ripple beneath his
costume, his chest is emblazoned with a'G'inside a hexagon—and his forefinger points …

Author: Peplow M, Journal: Nature[2006/04].

The robot moves slowly along its track, pausing regularly to reach out an arm that carefully
scoops up a component. The arm connects the component to an elaborate construction on
the robot's back. Then the robot moves forward and repeats the process—systematically …

BY MARK PEPLOW “It's been a dream project—but it's been a long dream,” says Jay
Keasling, a biochemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. Seven years ago,
he and his team genetically engineered yeast to produce artemisinic acid (D.-K. Ro et al …