Microbial platform for medical and industrial biomaterials

For billions of years, nature has evolved the enzymes that carry the circle of life forward. Microbes use simple inputs to make natural polyesters that store their energy, drawing on many forms of carbon, from sugar to methanol to carbon dioxide. What takes a petrochemical plant heat and pressure, microbes do as biocatalysts and biofactories under far milder conditions, much like brewing or fermentation.

Nature optimized these pathways for survival. We optimize them for performance. Scattered across organisms and evolved for a different purpose, they were never meant for the materials the 21st century needs. That is where we come in. We integrate breakthrough pathways across every scale, from the molecule to industrial biomanufacturing, into one platform we can direct for tunability and performance.

The same biology that can heal the body can rebuild how industry makes things. Explore how a related platform powers industrial materials.