June
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/ 2025
By engineering microrganisms, the Carbon-Loop Sustainable Biomanufacturing Hub (C-Loop) aims to make the manufacturing of everyday products – more than 90 per cent of which are manufactured from fossil fuels using unsustainable chemical processes – cleaner and part of a circular economy.
Engineering biology – an area in which the University of Edinburgh is a UK and global leader - applies engineering principles to biological processes to create new materials, treatments and solutions.