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Featured Technologies

Design of an Engineered Alcohol Dehydrogenase

Rational design of an engineered alcohol dehydrogenase towards C6 or higher alcohols. (more…)

Novel multi-resistant microbial, biofilm and biofouling hybrid isoprenoid inhibitors isolated from MAR4 strains [NI-TECH-2020-28]

Actinomycetes targeted from marine sediments collected off Madeira Archipelago, located at the unexplored Macaronesia Atlantic ecoregion. (more…)

OptoElex – Novel Light-weight Pentacyclic amide Compounds for Optoelectronic applications

Small organic molecules for application as organic semiconductors (OSCs) principally as organic thin film transistors (OTFT) and OLEDs. (more…)

BLOODless – Blood-free Diet for Rearing Malaria Mosquito Vectors

A mosquito diet similar to blood that frees research and control of vector-borne diseases like malaria of financial and ethical constraints. (more…)