date:Mar 11, 2013
The Minister announced grants totalling 5.3M which were awarded through a competition for business-led, collaborative projects aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of using synthetic biology to create novel or improved products or processes.
Synthetic biology, although a newly-emerging technology, is already bringing commercial success to UK companies. TMO Renewables, for example, who received funding previously from the BBSRC, developed a 'thermophilic (heat-loving) microorganism' - hence 'T