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 …

Molecular digital data storage using DNA

L Ceze, J Nivala, K Strauss - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Molecular data storage is an attractive alternative for dense and durable information storage,
which is sorely needed to deal with the growing gap between information production and the …

Live-seq enables temporal transcriptomic recording of single cells

W Chen, O Guillaume-Gentil, PY Rainer, CG Gäbelein… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) has greatly advanced our ability to characterize
cellular heterogeneity. However, scRNA-seq requires lysing cells, which impedes further …

Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and systemic antitumor immunity

S Chowdhury, S Castro, C Coker, TE Hinchliffe… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Synthetic biology is driving a new era of medicine through the genetic programming of living
cells,. This transformative approach allows for the creation of engineered systems that …

Escherichia coli “Marionette” strains with 12 highly optimized small-molecule sensors

AJ Meyer, TH Segall-Shapiro, E Glassey… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular processes are carried out by many genes, and their study and optimization requires
multiple levers by which they can be independently controlled. The most common method is …

Engineering bacteria for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

DT Riglar, PA Silver - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Our ability to generate bacterial strains with unique and increasingly complex functions has
rapidly expanded in recent times. The capacity for DNA synthesis is increasing and costing …

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 …

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 …

Principles of genetic circuit design

JAN Brophy, CA Voigt - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Cells navigate environments, communicate and build complex patterns by initiating gene
expression in response to specific signals. Engineers seek to harness this capability to …

DNA strand-displacement temporal logic circuits

AP Lapteva, N Sarraf, L Qian - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular circuits capable of processing temporal information are essential for complex
decision making in response to both the presence and history of a molecular environment. A …