Baker’s yeast makes penicillin
Why is it important that, for the very first time, we have reengineered Baker's yeast to manufacture penicillin? Our team…
Dr Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and leads a research group in the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation focussing on synthetic genome construction, and genetic reprogramming of microbes to produce medicines and advanced materials.
Hi-tech tea
Cellulose, which is harvested from trees and plants, is a very common material used to make paper and cardboard. But…