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• Circe: Transforming greenhouse gases into biodegradable products
  Our society is built upon cheap, widely available petrochemicals. Beyond gasoline and other fuels, petrochemicals are primary components of many of the objects in our everyday lives, including clothing, cosmetics, electronics, packaging, paint, floors, cars, and furniture. The vast majority of these products do not biodegrade in the environment and are not recycled, and the...
• 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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  Discovery of performance-enhancing bacteria in the human microbiome
  June 24, 2019
• Press Release
  
  Solar panels for yeast cell biofactories
  November 15, 2018
• Research Spotlights
  
  Expanding the scope of cell-free protein expression
  September 12, 2018

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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