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• Reel Foods: Cultivated fillets of fish for healthier people and planet
  Reel Foods leverages cardiac tissue engineering methods developed at the Wyss Institute to generate cultivated fish fillets that are indistinguishable from wild-caught seafood, have a lower carbon footprint than traditional fish production, and are free from contaminants like mercury and PFAS.
• Circe: Transforming greenhouse gases into valuable products with microbes
  Circe Bioscience is using gas fermentation to produce valuable materials including fats, oils, and fuels from greenhouse gases using engineered microbes.
• Toehold Switches for Synthetic Biology
  The burgeoning field of synthetic biology is designing artificial gene circuits that recognize molecules in their environment and respond by regulating genes with desired activities. In the future, such capabilities could allow the engineering of cells as diagnostic or therapeutic devices, factories for the production of clinically or industrially coveted molecules, and as specialized devices...
• Bioplastics
  Humans have produced roughly 8,300 million metric tons of plastic since the 1950s, the vast majority of which has been thrown out as waste. Only about 9% of that plastic waste has been recycled and 12% has been incinerated, leaving 79% of it to accumulate on our land and oceans, harming the environment, the food...

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  Newly discovered cyanobacteria could help sequester carbon from oceans and factories
  October 29, 2024
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  Solving Sustainability with Synthetic Biology
  April 25, 2024
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  Getting closer to a greener world
  July 14, 2021

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  Circe: Using Microbes to Make Biodegradable Products
  Current manufacturing methods release harmful greenhouse gases and pollution, and many of the products produced do not biodegrade, damaging our ecosystems even further. What if we could turn greenhouse gases into biodegradable products? Researchers at the Wyss Institute are using synthetic biology to make this a reality. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Light-driven fine chemical production in yeast biohybrids
  Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Neel Joshi explains the concept of yeast biohybrids and how they can be used to harvest energy from light to drive the production of fine chemicals. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Enzymes Degrading Cellulose: From Molecular Mechanisms To Traffic Simulator
  Cellulose is a major component of plant cell wall and the most abundant biomass on earth. Efficient degradation of cellulose makes it possible to produce fuels and chemicals from plant resources for the achievement of Bioeconomy. Cellobiohydrolases (CBHs) are types of cellulases hydrolyzing crystalline cellulose to soluble oligosaccharides, and one of the key enzymes in... Free and open to public