Novacta BioSystems

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Novacta Biosystems is an independent research and development company that focuses on bioengineering, primarily in the following areas:
* biosynthetic pathway engineering?
* microbial pathway engineering?
* green chemistry using microorganism engineering for production of biofuels and bioplastics using novel intermediates and biomass by-products?
* industrial biotechnology? and biosynthetic applications in renewable chemicals?, chemical intermediates? and non-fuel biochemicals
* Pathway engineering
* Biotransformation development

Novacta has manipulated the pathways of multiple bacteria such as actinomycetes?, bacillus?, E. coli?, and fungi? and yeast to produce proprietary compounds of interest such as bioethanol, bioplastics and antibiotics. One example was in helping TMO Renewables to optimize a production strain of Thermobacillus bacterium? for a bioethanol plant in the UK.

The company also has experience in developing routes to chemical intermediates and fine chemicals. Microorganisms and enzymes are able to carry out complex chemical reactions under mild reaction conditions and can be much more selective than chemical transformations.