Sunday, May 01, 2016 Major advance in ‘synthetic biochemistry’ holds promise for industrial products and biofuels UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells Stuart Wolpert | April 11, 2016 Reed Hutchinson/UCLA Paul Opgenorth, Tyler Korman and James Bowie (left to right) working in Bowie’s lab at UCLA. UCLA biochemists have devised a clever way to make a variety of useful chemical compounds, which could lead to the production of biofuels and new pharmaceuticals. “The idea of synthetic biology is to redesign cells so they will take sugar and run it through a series of chemical steps to convert it into a biofuel or a commodity chemical or a pharmaceutical,” said James Bowie, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in
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