Advances in ultrahigh-throughput screening for directed enzyme evolution

U Markel, KD Essani, V Besirlioglu, J Schiffels… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are versatile catalysts and their synthetic potential has been recognized for a long
time. In order to exploit their full potential, enzymes often need to be re-engineered or …

A brief history of synthetic biology

DE Cameron, CJ Bashor, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
The ability to rationally engineer microorganisms has been a long-envisioned goal dating
back more than a half-century. With the genomics revolution and rise of systems biology in …

[HTML][HTML] Generative AI in medical practice: in-depth exploration of privacy and security challenges

Y Chen, P Esmaeilzadeh - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024 - jmir.org
As advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to transform and revolutionize the field of
medicine, understanding the potential uses of generative AI in health care becomes …

Adaptive laboratory evolution–principles and applications for biotechnology

M Dragosits, D Mattanovich - Microbial cell factories, 2013 - Springer
Adaptive laboratory evolution is a frequent method in biological studies to gain insights into
the basic mechanisms of molecular evolution and adaptive changes that accumulate in …

Precise and reliable gene expression via standard transcription and translation initiation elements

VK Mutalik, JC Guimaraes, G Cambray, C Lam… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
An inability to reliably predict quantitative behaviors for novel combinations of genetic
elements limits the rational engineering of biological systems. We developed an expression …

Synthetic biology: applications come of age

AS Khalil, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Synthetic biology is bringing together engineers and biologists to design and build novel
biomolecular components, networks and pathways, and to use these constructs to rewire …

Synthetic circuits integrating logic and memory in living cells

P Siuti, J Yazbek, TK Lu - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Logic and memory are essential functions of circuits that generate complex, state-dependent
responses. Here we describe a strategy for efficiently assembling synthetic genetic circuits …

Engineering an allosteric transcription factor to respond to new ligands

ND Taylor, AS Garruss, R Moretti, S Chan, MA Arbing… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic regulatory proteins inducible by small molecules are useful synthetic biology tools
as sensors and switches. Bacterial allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) are a major class of …

Synthetic analog computation in living cells

R Daniel, JR Rubens, R Sarpeshkar, TK Lu - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
A central goal of synthetic biology is to achieve multi-signal integration and processing in
living cells for diagnostic, therapeutic and biotechnology applications. Digital logic has been …

The ribosome binding site calculator

HM Salis - Methods in enzymology, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ribosome Binding Site (RBS) Calculator is a design method for predicting and
controlling translation initiation and protein expression in bacteria. The method can predict …