Novacta Biosystems Enhances Biofuels, Bioplastics and Biochemicals Research Expertise

LONDON, Mar 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
NOVACTA Biosystems, a leading contract research organization focused on
genetic pathway engineering to develop novel and
environmentally-favorable biological processes to produce biofuels,
bioplastics and biochemicals, announced today enhanced R&D capabilities
and its upcoming conference participation schedule.

Novacta's experienced scientific team has a 25-year track record of
successfully manipulating the pathways of multiple bacteria
(actinomycetes, bacillus and E. coli) and fungi/yeast to produce
proprietary compounds of interest such as bioethanol, bio-plastics,
antibiotics and macrolides.

Core competencies include:

(1) Biosynthetic/microbial pathway engineering

(2) Green chemistry -- micro-organism engineering for efficient biofuels
and bio-plastics production from novel intermediates, starting materials
and biomass by-products

(3) Biotransformations, Biocatalysis & "Metabolite Factories" for drug or
API discovery and development; and

(4) Other industrial biotechnology and biosynthetic applications in the
chemicals, chemical intermediates, non-fuel biochemicals, cosmetics,
flavors and food industries.

To learn more about Novacta, please visit their new web site at:

http://www.novactabio.com/biosystems.php

Or visit with us at the following conferences:

(1) Sustainable Bioenergy 2009
01-02 April 2009, London, England
http://www.environmental-finance.com/conferences/2009/SustBio09/intro.htm

(2) Biomass Supply Chain Conference
02-03 April 2009, St. Louis, MO
http://www.biomassupdate.org/agenda.html

(3) Applied Industrial Synthetic Biology
16-17 April 2009, Freiburg, Germany
http://www.sp2.uk.com/biofine/europe/

(4) Advanced Biofuels Development Summit
20-21 April 2009, Washington, DC
http://www.biofuels-summit.com

(5) Society for Industrial Microbiology
Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels & Chemicals
03-06 May 2009, San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.simhq.org/meetings/sbfc2009/index.html

(6) BIO International Meeting
18-21 May 2009, Atlanta, GA
http://convention.bio.org/

Contacts:

Georg Buechner, PhD, MBA
Vice President
Corporate & Business Development
NOVACTA BIOSYSTEMS Ltd.
Biopark Hertfordshire
Broadwater Road
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordsire AL7 3AX U.K.
tel: 011-44-(0)1707-356-130
cell: 44 (0)79-895-96847
email: Email Contact
http://www.novactabio.com/biosystems.php

David A. Palella
President
BioScience Ventures Inc.
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: Email Contact
http://biobizdev.blogspot.com

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