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Synthetic biology
Designing and building new biological parts, circuits and systems.
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Metabolic engineering
Rewiring a microbe's chemistry to make useful molecules, such as a precursor of the antimalarial drug artemisinin in yeast.Source: Paddon et al., 2013
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Enzyme
A biological catalyst that speeds up a reaction without being used up. Most are proteins, but some RNAs are catalysts too, including the core of the ribosome.
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High-level semi-synthetic production of the potent antimalarial artemisinin (opens the original in a new tab)
Paddon CJ, Westfall PJ, Pitera DJ, et al. (2013). Nature 496:528-532.
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