Article: Verdezyne Receives Federal Grant to Advance Synthetic Biology Tools.

Verdezyne, Inc., a privately-held synthetic biology company developing fermentation processes for industrial chemicals and biofuels, announced that they have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy And Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for a period of 1.5 years. The goal of this program is to quickly and reliably advance the construction of directed mutant gene libraries widely considered important technology tools for synthetic biology.

Verdezyne will apply their proprietary computational and bioinformatics programs to create highly diverse gene libraries to further enhance metabolic engineering tools. This enhanced capability will be ...

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