Chemical synthesis of specialty and commodity products still reigns supreme but greener, metabolic engineering approaches are gaining ground.
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Pfleger, B., Prather, K. Biological synthesis unbounded?. Nat Biotechnol 33, 1148–1149 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3399
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