New – The University of Manchester Presidential Fellowships

The University is inviting the brightest academic talent to apply for The University of Manchester Presidential Fellowships. We’re interested in early-career academics who can deliver world-leading research and teaching, and become the inspiring leaders of the...

Selenzyme: Enzyme selection tool for pathway design

Enzymes are proteins found in every living organism, catalysing biochemical reactions and involved in multiple biological processes. Industrial biotechnology utilises enzymes in a large variety of applications such as in sectors including food, cosmetics,...

RetroPath2.0 workflow for Retrosynthesis

Retrosynthesis is a long-standing problem first introduced by Chemistry Nobel Laureate J.E. Corey in the late 1960s.  Taking advantage of recent progresses made in machine learning the problem has been revisited. In two papers SYNBIOCHEM teamed up with MICALIS...

New Synthetic Biology Collaboration with BGI

Patrick (Yizhi) Cai (Prof. Synthetic Genomics) at the University of Manchester and the President of  the Life Sciences Research Institute, Xun Xu from BGI signed a memorandum of Understanding to promote strategic collaboration. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) and...

Coupling droplet microfluidics with Mass Spectrometry

Emily Kempa: With the number of variants in a combinatorial library regularly exceeding 105 entities, SYNBIOCHEM Manchester are looking for new high throughput technologies for screening these variations for useful mutations to take forward into the next round of...

Discover our Research on YouTube

Watch our new University of Manchester Chemistry videos on YouTube! HERE Demystifying the science behind our research papers, these videos provide a real world view of how important these discoveries are for day to day life. These include: Finding new routes to...