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News£1.8m grant to engineer microbial cell factories
A team of academics from Aston University and the University of Warwick has secured a £1.8m grant to engineer microbial cell factories to produce membrane proteins which will support future drug screening and sustainable chemical production.
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NewsScientists tackle challenges of converting rice straw into next gen biofuels
Scientists are to tackle some of the challenges of how to make inedible rice straw into the next generation of biofuels, with the help of yeasts.
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NewsScientists explore bio-inspired membranes for separating contaminants from water
Scientists are to explore a more sustainable method of separating contaminants from water, using exquisite molecular selectivity, which means that just a single chemical or molecular species will be able to pass through the membrane.
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NewsE coli strain may have evolved too far to be fit for lab purposes
A model organism used in laboratories for the past 100 years has evolved so extensively that it may no longer be fit for purpose, according to a new study.
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NewsAston University and Partnership Medical fight antimicrobial resistance with world-first automated endoscope cleaner
Aston University and Partnership Medical (PML) have completed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), resulting in the development of a revolutionary automated system for the high-level cleaning of endoscopes.
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NewsMicroalgae devour coffee grounds to produce low emission biodiesel
Researchers at Aston University have produced high-quality biodiesel after ‘feeding’ and growing microalgae on leftover coffee grounds.
