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Ep 69 - Revolutionary Enzyme Ready to Cleave Unbreakable Bond


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The Nobel Prize winning scientists, Frances Arnold, has done it again! Her team have use directed evolution to engineer enzymes that can break down the strong carbon-silicon bonds found in many products we use everyday!


Reference:

Nicholas S. Sarai et al. ,Directed evolution of enzymatic silicon-carbon bond cleavage in siloxanes.Science383,438-443(2024). DOI:10.1126/science.adi5554


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