Responsible Research and Innovation – A Manchester Perspective
[PDF version] Barbara Ribeiro and Philip Shapira What is RRI? Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a process that, with the involvement of society, openly and explicitly focuses on the societal, ethical, equity, environmental and...
An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline
The SYNBIOCHEM automated pipeline for the discovery and optimisation of biosynthetic pathways for microbial production of fine chemicals has been published in Nature: Communications Biology. The microbial production of fine and speciality chemicals promises to deliver bio-sustainable manufacturing...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast
Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production. This is to develop a synthetic yeast strain that can be transformed on demand, making it particularly attractive for industrial...
eForFuel: Fuels from CO2 and Electricity
C3 Biotechnologies Ltd is taking part in eForFuel, an exciting EU-funded research and innovation initiative that seeks to provide a sustainable replacement of fossil fuels by using electricity and microorganisms to convert CO2 into renewable fuels. Read more Updates can be found at www.eforfuel.eu...
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 future. Applicants should have a high...
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, pharmaceuticals and advanced materials....
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 Institute at INRA (France) to explore...
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 University of Manchester have...
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 development. Although the Sphere...
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 replacement molecules for oil using...