Cell-free gene expression: an expanded repertoire of applications

AD Silverman, AS Karim, MC Jewett - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cell-free biology is the activation of biological processes without the use of intact living cells.
It has been used for more than 50 years across the life sciences as a foundational research …

Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems

ME Allen, JW Hindley, DK Baxani, O Ces… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent years have seen substantial efforts aimed at constructing artificial cells from various
molecular components with the aim of mimicking the processes, behaviours and …

Compartmentalizing cell-free systems: toward creating life-like artificial cells and beyond

E Cho, Y Lu - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Building an artificial cell is a research area that is rigorously studied in the field of synthetic
biology. It has brought about much attention with the aim of ultimately constructing a natural …

Bottom-up construction of complex biomolecular systems with cell-free synthetic biology

N Laohakunakorn, L Grasemann… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell-free systems offer a promising approach to engineer biology since their open nature
allows for well-controlled and characterized reaction conditions. In this review, we discuss …

Hydrogels for 3D mammalian cell culture: a starting guide for laboratory practice

F Ruedinger, A Lavrentieva, C Blume… - Applied microbiology …, 2015 - Springer
Hydrogels have become one of the most popular platforms for three-dimensional (3D)
cultivation of mammalian cells. The enormous versatility of hydrogel materials makes it …

Biocompatible fluorinated polyglycerols for droplet microfluidics as an alternative to PEG-based copolymer surfactants

O Wagner, J Thiele, M Weinhart, L Mazutis, DA Weitz… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In droplet-based microfluidics, non-ionic, high-molecular weight surfactants are required to
stabilize droplet interfaces. One of the most common structures that imparts stability as well …

Lab on a particle technologies

R Ghosh, A Arnheim, M van Zee, L Shang… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
From “Lab on a Chip” to “Lab on a Particle”. The miniaturization and automation of life
science laboratory operations has leveraged fabrication advances in the integrated circuit …

Artificial gel‐based organelles for spatial organization of cell‐free gene expression reactions

L Aufinger, FC Simmel - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Gel‐based artificial organelles have been developed that enable sequence‐specific and
programmable localization of cell‐free transcription and translation reactions inside an …

Lipid sponge droplets as programmable synthetic organelles

A Bhattacharya, H Niederholtmeyer… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Living cells segregate molecules and reactions in various subcellular compartments known
as organelles. Spatial organization is likely essential for expanding the biochemical …

Discovery in droplets

AK Price, BM Paegel - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the summer of 2009, Daniel Chiu's prescient review in Analytical Chemistry described
droplet microfluidics, an emerging concept and malleable analytical tool. 1 The review …