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SUMMARY:Bigger Picture Talk: Boosting local biomanufacturing in the global
  south to impact health and sustainability - Dr Jenny Molloy - Department 
 of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20260225T133000Z
DTEND:20260225T144500Z
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CONTACT:120673
DESCRIPTION:Enzymes are critical for all synthetic biology research and ev
 ery molecular diagnostic test\, making them vital tools for global health.
  However\, enzymes are primarily manufactured in Europe\, North America\, 
 and parts of Asia and\, most often\, require a cold distribution chain for
  stability. This means that they can be expensive and unreliable to ship t
 o other parts of the world. This has been a longstanding problem for resea
 rchers building diagnostics and biosensors and supply chains broke down fu
 rther under the pressure of COVID.. As a response to the need to distribut
 e the means of enzyme production and to enable more equitable access to sy
 nthetic biology\, we developed several opensource DNA toolkits which are n
 ow in >500 labs in >40 countries\, including universities\, research insti
 tutions and small biotech companies. I will present the development and im
 pact of these toolkits and the potential for distributed manufacturing of 
 enzymes and other reagents to catalyse synthetic biology for global health
 : increasing the autonomy and agency of synthetic biologists to tackle hea
 lth challenges wherever they are based in the world.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotec
 hnology\, West Cambridge Site
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