Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...
Marc Zimmer received funding from NIH to research fluorescent proteins. Fruit flies, mice, zebra fish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on their ...
The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. A protein of just 100 amino acids has 20 100 possible variants—more combinations than atoms in the observable universe.