Enzyme Detectives Uncover New Reactions, Products

Courtesy Brookhaven National Laboratory News  Mon, 09/08/2008 - 16:00

If your experiment doesn’t go the way you expect, take a closer look — something even more interesting may have happened.

That strategy has led scientists at Brookhaven to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme’s function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.

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