Big advance in P450 chemistry

An article from Chemical and Engineering News in which directed evolution yields an enzyme that oxidizes alkenes in a process called anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation that is difficult to achieve because the reaction is energetically unfavorable   https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Enzyme-beats-catalysts-oxidation-game.html 

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Summer School

ROBOX part of H2020 Summer School Between Tuesday 03 – Friday 06 October 2017 ROBOX project contributed both posters and talks to the HORIZON 2020 SUMMER SCHOOL 2017 Biocatalysis as a Key Enabling Technology in a collaboration between CarbaZymes/Robox/Metafluidics H2020 projects                   Some ROBOX presentations from the Summer…

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Meet the Researchers from Aachen

Meet the Researchers from Aachen Since autumn 2015, the Institute of Biotechnology led by Prof Ulrich Schwaneberg at the RWTH Aachen University is hosting four researchers in the ROBOX – H2020 project, Anna Joëlle Ruff, Anna Gärtner, Alexandra Weingartner and Alan Mertens. The RWTH ROBOX team; From left to right: Dr. Alan Mertens, Prof. Ulrich…