Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Materials design by synthetic biology

TC Tang, B An, Y Huang, S Vasikaran, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology applies genetic tools to engineer living cells and organisms analogous to
the programming of machines. In materials synthetic biology, engineering principles from …

An electrogenetic interface to program mammalian gene expression by direct current

J Huang, S Xue, P Buchmann, AP Teixeira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Wearable electronic devices are playing a rapidly expanding role in the acquisition of
individuals' health data for personalized medical interventions; however, wearables cannot …

Sub-1.4 cm3 capsule for detecting labile inflammatory biomarkers in situ

ME Inda-Webb, M Jimenez, Q Liu, NV Phan, J Ahn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Transient molecules in the gastrointestinal tract such as nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide
are key signals and mediators of inflammation. Owing to their highly reactive nature and …

Genetic circuit design automation

AAK Nielsen, BS Der, J Shin, P Vaidyanathan… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cells respond to their environment, make decisions, build structures, and
coordinate tasks. Underlying these processes are computational operations performed by …

Synthetic memory circuits for stable cell reprogramming in plants

JPB Lloyd, F Ly, P Gong, J Pflueger, T Swain… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant biotechnology predominantly relies on a restricted set of genetic parts with limited
capability to customize spatiotemporal and conditional expression patterns. Synthetic gene …

Engineering stem cell organoids

X Yin, BE Mead, H Safaee, R Langer, JM Karp, O Levy - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Organoid systems leverage the self-organizing properties of stem cells to create diverse
multi-cellular tissue proxies. Most organoid models only represent single or partial …

A comprehensive survey of recent advancements in molecular communication

N Farsad, HB Yilmaz, A Eckford… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With much advancement in the field of nanotechnology, bioengineering, and synthetic
biology over the past decade, microscales and nanoscales devices are becoming a reality …

3D printing of living responsive materials and devices

X Liu, H Yuk, S Lin, GA Parada, TC Tang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D printing has been intensively explored to fabricate customized structures of
responsive materials including hydrogels, liquid‐crystal elastomers, shape‐memory …

Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression

AA Green, PA Silver, JJ Collins, P Yin - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Efforts to construct synthetic networks in living cells have been hindered by the limited
number of regulatory components that provide wide dynamic range and low crosstalk. Here …