All's well that ends well...or is it? 

Enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts for virtually all biological reactions. Without them, these reactions would be entirely impossible or occur too slowly to sustain life. 

But even if two enzymes catalyze the same reaction to result in the same products, there can be huge differences in the rate of the reaction based on the enzymes' kinetics. These differences can be harnessed for a number of applications ranging from therapeutic to industrial. 

In this demo, you will use BioRad's Biofuel Enzyme Kit to learn how to tune enzyme kinetics to mass-produce biofuels to meet a growing global demand for sustainable energy sources.

With the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and tremendous advancements in sequencing technologies since then, there is an equally tremendous amount of biological data at researchers' disposal. 

But who has the time to manually inspect all this data and, perhaps more importantly, how do we extract useful information amidst all the biological noise? 

In this demo, you will get a taste of how computer science, statistics, and biology/chemistry all converge to enable researchers to analyze vast quantities of sequencing data and gain insight into human disease.

By Thomas Shafee - Own work, CC BY 4.0