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Brain Acquires Stake In Enzymicals

by Ann M. Thayer
July 19, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 29

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Researchers at Enzymicals’ lab in Greifswald.
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Researchers at Enzymicals’ lab in Greifswald.

Industrial biotech firm Brain has acquired a minority stake in Enzymicals, which spun off in 2009 from the research group of biotechnology professor Uwe Bornscheuer of Ernst Moritz Arndt University, in Greifswald, Germany. Enzymicals is developing biocatalytic routes to fine and specialty chemicals. The companies will apply Brain’s enzyme libraries to industrial process development. In a similar move, Johnson Matthey recently bought the German university spin-off and biocatalysis company X-Zyme.

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