Research Articles
Brewing Health: How Engineered Yeast is Revolutionizing Omega-3 Production
Discover how metabolic engineering transforms baker's yeast into microscopic factories producing essential omega-3 fatty acids, offering sustainable alternatives to traditional fish oil sources.
The Bacteria Factory: How Engineered E. Coli Could Green Your Next Smartphone Screen
Discover how metabolic engineering transforms E. coli into sustainable factories for citramalic acid production, revolutionizing plastic manufacturing.
Taming the Cellular Factory: A Conversation with Sang Yup Lee on the Future of Manufacturing
Explore how metabolic engineering pioneer Sang Yup Lee is reprogramming microbes to create sustainable factories for chemicals, materials, and fuels.
Green Factories: How Rerouting a Microbe's Metabolism Creates a Wonder Molecule
Discover how scientists are engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum to efficiently produce 5-aminolevulinic acid, a versatile molecule with applications in medicine and agriculture.
Green Factories: How Scientists Are Engineering Tobacco to Produce Cannabis Medicines
Discover how metabolic engineering is transforming tobacco plants into biofactories for cannabinoid production, revolutionizing pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Revolutionizing Biomanufacturing: How Metabolic Engineering is Transforming Animal Cell Factories
Exploring the progress in metabolic engineering of animal cells for biopharmaceutical production, cultivated meat, and cellular agriculture.
Brewing Biofuel: Programming Bacteria for Green Gasoline
Discover how scientists use metabolic engineering to program E. coli bacteria for high-yield production of isoprenoid-based C5 alcohols, a promising biofuel alternative.