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Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Biotech breakthrough as yeast makes painkillers from sugar The first strain of yeast that can synthesize painkilling opioids from scratch using a sugar feedstock has been engineered by scientists in the US.   |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Yeast turned into morphine and opioid biofactories Genetically modified yeast can synthesize morphine and semisynthetic opioid pharmaceuticals, researchers in the US have shown. |
Chemistry World
August 11, 2008 |
Yeast Manufacture Morphine Precursor US scientists have developed a way to produce a group of medically important plant compounds in yeast. They say their technique could be used to manufacture drugs including painkillers and new cancer treatments. |
Chemistry World
January 18, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Plants reprogrammed to produce potential drugs Plants could one day function as factories for producing anti-cancer drugs, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World
January 27, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Diet affects cholesterol drug Copper and zinc in the diet could impair the action of statin drugs, compounds prescribed to lower cholesterol, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World
August 29, 2007
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
'Lost' Folate Enzyme Found After 30 Years US researchers have revealed the identity of an enzyme used by bacteria to make the essential B vitamin folate, 30 years after it was first isolated. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Methyl halides from biomass waste US researchers have developed a new way to engineer microorganisms to use biomass to produce methyl halides, simple chemicals used as agricultural fumigants and precursor molecules for complex chemicals and fuels. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2013
Hayley Birch |
Yeast to make malaria drug on demand A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast. |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2008
Victoria Gill |
Could Afghanistan's Opium Crop be Legalised? This year's opium harvest in Afghanistan will be 'shockingly high', according to figures released this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). |
Chemistry World
February 5, 2015
Emma Stoye |
'Robot scientist' speeds up drug discovery An artificial intelligence system -- or 'robot scientist' -- capable of screening potential drugs almost completely independently could speed up drug development, say the UK researchers who created it. |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2011
David Bradley |
Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies. |
Chemistry World
July 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Sparks of creation Chemists are at the forefront of synthetic biology, the burgeoning field that could soon create artificial life. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Nature Captured in a Test-Tube Two groups of researchers have demonstrated how a complex chain of reactions catalyzed by multiple enzymes can be reconstructed in the test tube to synthesize naturally occurring products that have potential therapeutic properties. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria. |
Wired
August 2004
Oliver Morton |
A Machine With a Mind of Its Own Ross King wanted a research assistant who would work 24/7 without sleep or food. So he built one. King's robot can look at the results of a biology experiment, draw a conclusion about what the results might mean, and then set off to test that conclusion. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2015 Innovations in chemistry this year include development of an Ebola vaccine, prize winning antimalarial drug research, and discovery of microstructures in bird feathers. |
Chemistry World
March 27, 2014
James Urquhart |
Synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functional The first complete and functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created by a team of scientists based in the US. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2010
Hayley Birch |
The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium. |
Wired
July 20, 2009
Erin Biba |
Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast How a professor reanimated ancient yeast from amber fossils and used them to make a new kind of beer. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Richard Saltus |
A Silver Lining Sure, some prions can cause diseases, but others are turning out to be beneficial. |
Reactive Reports
May 2007
David Bradley |
A Scent for Explosives A new type of biosensor based on yeast, jellyfish proteins, and a rat's sense of smell could sniff out explosives, landmines, and agents, such as sarin gas, according to researchers. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Shipwrecked beer from 1840s lives again Researchers in Finland and Germany have analyzed samples of 170-year-old beer recovered from a shipwreck in a bid to discover more about how the beverage, and the process of making it, has changed through the ages. |
IndustryWeek
November 16, 2011
David Drickhamer |
Future Now Five technology developments changing industry as we know it. |
Wired
September 24, 2007
Evan Ratliff |
The Formula: From Grass to Gas The process behind converting raw plants to ethanol. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2008
Hayley Birch |
RNA computers built in yeast US scientists have assembled ribonucleic acids into an adaptable logic system that can be programmed to sense and respond to molecules inside living yeast cells. |
