Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

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Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

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Desulfovibrio gigas is a strict anaerobe that contains a well-characterized metabolic pathway that enables it to survive transient contacts with oxygen. The terminal enzyme in this pathway, rubredoxin ...

Recently, a novel procedure, ORF (an acronym for ostensible recognition of folds), was developed to identify protein homologs in genomic databases 1. As an initial test, ORF was used to predict a gene ...

† Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 ‡ Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, ...

† Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States ‡ Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of ...