Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "synthetic biology"
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Engineered Living Materials: Engineered Living Materials: Prospects and Challenges for Using Biological Systems to Direct the Assembly of Smart Materials
(Wiley, 2018-05)Vast potential exists for the development of novel, engineered platforms that manipulate biology for the production of programmed advanced materials. Such systems would possess the autonomous, adaptive, and self‐healing ... -
Engineering Escherichia coli into a Protein Delivery System for Mammalian Cells
(American Chemical Society, 2015)Many Gram-negative pathogens encode type 3 secretion systems, sophisticated nanomachines that deliver proteins directly into the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. These systems present attractive opportunities for therapeutic ... -
Interfacing Microbial Styrene Production with a Biocompatible Cyclopropanation Reaction
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Introducing new reactivity into living organisms is a major challenge in synthetic biology. Despite an increasing interest in both developing aqueous-compatible small molecule catalysts and engineering enzymes to perform ... -
Microbiota and Neurological Disorders: A Gut Feeling
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2016)Abstract In the past century, noncommunicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the principal cause of sickness and death, worldwide. Trillions of commensal microbes live in and on our body, and constitute the ...