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Developing strategies for engineering efficient biocatalysts for the industrial production of chiral compounds
The market of chiral pharmaceuticals and of other fine chemicals for the fragrance and plant-protecting industries is a global multi-billion dollar business which is steadily growing. In general, only one of the enantiomers, the (R) or the
‘Fossil’ DNA – How many observed soil bacteria are actually alive?
In the first half of the 20th century, researchers studying soil bacteria had a problem: the number of organisms they could grow in the lab only accounted for ~1% of the total population that they could see under
