Cyanobacteria are promising microorganisms for sustainable biotechnologies, yet unlocking
their potential requires radical re-engineering and application of cutting-edge synthetic …

Living organisms evolve complex genetic networks to interact with the environment. Due to
the rapid development of synthetic biology, various modularized genetic parts and units …

The field of engineered living materials lies at the intersection of materials science and
synthetic biology with the aim of developing materials that can sense and respond to the …

Recent advances in synthetic biology research have been underpinned by an exponential
increase in available genomic information and a proliferation of advanced DNA assembly …

Being the green gold of the future, microalgae and cyanobacteria have recently attracted
considerable interest worldwide, for their metabolites such as lipids, protein, pigments, and …

In metabolic engineering, the production of industrially relevant chemicals, via rational
engineering of microorganisms, is an intensive area of research. One particular group of …

Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are important primary producers and model organisms for
studying photosynthesis and elements cycling on earth. Due to the ability to absorb sunlight …

Many cyanobacteria, which use light as an energy source via photosynthesis, have evolved
the ability to guide their movement toward or away from a light source. This process, termed …

Cyanobacteria are attractive hosts that can be engineered for the photosynthetic production
of fuels, fine chemicals, and proteins from CO 2. Moreover, the responsiveness of these …

The use of photosynthetic microbes as synthetic biology hosts for the sustainable production
of commodity chemicals and even fuels has received increasing attention over the last …