The Yew lab is immensely enthusiastic about enzymes – Nature’s best gifts to human beings. We aspire to gain a deeper understanding of how enzymes work and to turn our knowledge into disruptive technologies to tackle major problems faced by human society as a whole. As advocates for planetary health, we are constantly introducing technological innovations for an ensured sustainable future. Our novel enzymatic processes are being applied in green biomanufacturing, electronic waste bioremediation, plastics bio-upcycling, and biosynthesis of therapeutics such as cannabinoids and alkaloids. In addition, we are also embracing the Digital Revolution with our de novo enzymatic DNA synthesis to meet the unprecedented demand for digital data storage.

With all these efforts, we have begun defining synthetic enzymology as the application of enzymological principles in synthetic biology, in which enzymes are employed for purposeful functions, and describing its use as an enabling platform in synthetic biology for the bioproduction of compounds of biomedical and commercial importance, for the bioremediation and circular economy of metals and plastics, and for the economical safekeeping of digital data. Please explore this website to find out more!