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EP.5 Systems Metabolic Engineering | 10 Years of EmergingTech

In Episode 5 of 10 Years of Emerging Tech, Sang Yup Lee, Distinguished Professor and Vice President for Research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology shares his insights on microbes that are specially engineered to produce useful chemicals and materials. The technology behind this greener approach to chemical synthesis – called systems metabolic engineering – made it onto the 2016 list of Top 10 Emerging Technologies.

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