Science · 2026-11-12

What a brewery can teach the chemical industry

What do you do when the chemical you want to make is toxic to the microbe making it? It is a problem that limits efforts to replace oil-based manufacturing with biology, and one that researchers in the Sustainable Commodity Chemicals through Enzyme Engineering and Design project are approaching by borrowing a principle from brewing.

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