Recent advances in developing active targeting and multi-functional drug delivery systems via bioorthogonal chemistry

W Yi, P Xiao, X Liu, Z Zhao, X Sun, J Wang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistry reactions occur in physiological conditions without interfering with
normal physiological processes. Through metabolic engineering, bioorthogonal groups can …

Minimally instrumented SHERLOCK (miSHERLOCK) for CRISPR-based point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

H De Puig, RA Lee, D Najjar, X Tan, LR Soenksen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for diagnostics that can be rapidly adapted
and deployed in a variety of settings. Several SARS-CoV-2 variants have shown worrisome …

Synthetic biology-inspired cell engineering in diagnosis, treatment, and drug development

N Zhao, Y Song, X Xie, Z Zhu, C Duan… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The fast-developing synthetic biology (SB) has provided many genetic tools to reprogram
and engineer cells for improved performance, novel functions, and diverse applications …

CRISPR-induced DNA reorganization for multiplexed nucleic acid detection

M Karlikow, E Amalfitano, X Yang, J Doucet… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nucleic acid sensing powered by the sequence recognition of CRIPSR technologies has
enabled major advancement toward rapid, accurate and deployable diagnostics. While …

Field validation of the performance of paper-based tests for the detection of the Zika and chikungunya viruses in serum samples

M Karlikow, SJR da Silva, Y Guo, S Cicek… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
In low-resource settings, resilience to infectious disease outbreaks can be hindered by
limited access to diagnostic tests. Here we report the results of double-blinded studies of the …

Electrochemical Cell‐Free Biosensors for Antibody Detection

S Bracaglia, S Ranallo, F Ricci - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report here the development of an electrochemical cell‐free biosensor for antibody
detection directly in complex sample matrices with high sensitivity and specificity that is …

Therapeutic reversal of Huntington's disease by in vivo self-assembled siRNAs

L Zhang, T Wu, Y Shan, G Li, X Ni, X Chen, X Hu, L Lin… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG
expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Since mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein is …

Programmable cell-free transcriptional switches for antibody detection

A Patino Diaz, S Bracaglia, S Ranallo… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report here the development of a cell-free in vitro transcription system for the detection of
specific target antibodies. The approach is based on the use of programmable antigen …

Autonomous push button–controlled rapid insulin release from a piezoelectrically activated subcutaneous cell implant

H Zhao, S Xue, MD Hussherr, AP Teixeira… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Traceless physical cues are desirable for remote control of the in situ production and real-
time dosing of biopharmaceuticals in cell-based therapies. However, current optogenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology as driver for the biologization of materials sciences

O Burgos-Morales, M Gueye, L Lacombe, C Nowak… - Materials Today Bio, 2021 - Elsevier
Materials in nature have fascinating properties that serve as a continuous source of
inspiration for materials scientists. Accordingly, bio-mimetic and bio-inspired approaches …