APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biosynthetic jet fuel Fragrance manufacturing ADVANTAGES: Sustainable process Platform for cost effective, large scale biosynthetic fuel and chemical production ABSTRACT: A Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) research team has constructed a metabolic pathway to produce the monoterpene pinene, an immediate chemical precursor to a … [Read more...] about Biosynthetically Produced Pinene for Jet Fuel or Chemical Applications EJIB-2895
Biotechnology
Controlling Metabolic Pathways Using Artificial Positive Feedback Loop in Yeast EIB-3293
APPLICATIONS Pharmaceutical manufacturing Specialty chemical and metabolite production Biofuels and biofuel precursors Secondary metabolite production ADVANTAGES Rapid, simple, and reliable process Highly stable: does not use plasmids Readily transferable to other yeast strains and fungi Facilitates promoter selection for metabolic engineering Diverse … [Read more...] about Controlling Metabolic Pathways Using Artificial Positive Feedback Loop in Yeast EIB-3293
Rationally Designed Synthetic Transcription Factors EIB-3211
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Metabolic engineering Gene therapy Stem-cell engineering Drug delivery systems Antiviral therapeutics ADVANTAGES: More suitable than natural transcription factors for biotech applications Rational design Enhances in vivo directed evolution of mutant phenotypes Broadly applicable in synthetic biology Method can be … [Read more...] about Rationally Designed Synthetic Transcription Factors EIB-3211
Stable Imaging Arrangement and Fluorescent Microscope JIB-2619
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biological and biomedical research ADVANTAGES: Can retrofit any commercial fluorescent microscope Subnanometer precision and accuracy Stability 100 times superior to conventional fluorescent microscopes Real-time imaging Minimizes post-processing corrections Enables co-localization of two or more proteins in a biological … [Read more...] about Stable Imaging Arrangement and Fluorescent Microscope JIB-2619
Optical Atomic Magnetometer for Portable, Inexpensive MRI and Magnetic Microparticle Detection IB-2232
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Low-cost MRI for noninvasive diagnostics Remote medical diagnostic detection by NMR and MRI Monitoring chemical reactions and biological processes using magnetic particles Detecting magnetic impurities for quality control on production lines Enabling studies of drug delivery for pharmaceutical development ADVANTAGES: High … [Read more...] about Optical Atomic Magnetometer for Portable, Inexpensive MRI and Magnetic Microparticle Detection IB-2232