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Month: November 2002

University of California, Rensselaer Polytechnic, DARPA file patent US7427497: In vitro metabolic engineering on microscale devices

Disclosed herein is a microfluidics device that can be used to prepare natural products and their analogs. The device comprises the enzymes of a biosynthetic pathway immobilized thereon and a means for sequentially directing a starting material and each ensuing reaction product to the enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway in the order corresponding to the…