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,聽programme director for the Synthetic Biology MRes at 香港六合彩 Biochemical Engineering, has been pioneering techniques to force bacteria to create new enzymes for a wide range of purposes; from replicating the actions in a human body to breaking down plastics into new compounds we can use again. This quest has led him to find sources of bacteria for his experiments in all sorts of places. When he moved into a new house the shower was slow to empty, and his wife opened the shower trap to remove the accumulated gunk. John spotted the potential in this and brought the matter into the lab.

John鈥檚 research has led to receiving a highlight editorial in Nature Catalysis titled and an ALMAC cover with the headline 鈥淐utting-edge research for a greener sustainable future.鈥� The reason these publications are so excited by this research is that the bacteria from John鈥檚 drain have evolved under extreme conditions and have robust enzymes that have potential to make it more sustainable, cheaper and quicker to test and manufacture products such as medicines.

that give pharmaceutical and agricultural research and development companies聽a range of new enzymes to test. Some of John鈥檚 new enzymes were included in the kit and there is hope that they will lead to new drug discoveries.

Innovate UK have awarded John and Hypha Discovery a new research project grant of 拢532,290 entitled 'From O to N: engineering the gap'. This is an 18 month project that aims to establish scalable bioconversion systems for production of N-glucuronides of drugs and metabolite standards.