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Nature is full of chemicals – flavours, fragrances, medicines. Living systems have been making these useful chemicals for billions of years, but usually only tiny quantities, because that’s all they need! In this animation we find out how chemists are learning from nature to create these chemicals in much larger quantities, to satisfy our industrial needs. Watch our animation below as we ask what can Chemists learn from nature?… Read the full science behind here: http://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/what-can-chemists-learn-nature Don't forget to like us on Facebook @OxSparks Twitter: @OxfordSparks and on Instagram @OxfordSparks

HydRegen is a technology that allows for the efficient recycling of cofactors needed in enzyme-driven reactions. It was developed by Kylie Vincent and her team at the University of Oxford, and won the 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition. Read more about HydRegen here: http://rsc.li/1jaWVs4 Find more chemistry news, reviews, features and opinions: http://www.chemistryworld.org