Designing a synthetic moss genome using GenoDesigner

W Yu, S Zhang, S Zhao, L Chen, J Cao, H Ye, J Yan… - Nature plants, 2024 - nature.com
The de novo synthesis of genomes has made unprecedented progress and achieved
milestones, particularly in bacteria and yeast. However, the process of synthesizing a …

Engineering is evolution: a perspective on design processes to engineer biology

SD Castle, M Stock, TE Gorochowski - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Careful consideration of how we approach design is crucial to all areas of biotechnology.
However, choosing or develo** an effective design methodology is not always easy as …

The design and engineering of synthetic genomes

JS James, J Dai, WL Chew, Y Cai - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic genomics seeks to design and construct entire genomes to mechanistically dissect
fundamental questions of genome function and to engineer organisms for diverse …

Resha** Phosphatase Substrate Preference for Controlled Biosynthesis Using a “Design–Build–Test–Learn” Framework

J Lu, X Lv, W Yu, J Zhang, J Lu, Y Liu, J Li… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biosynthesis is the application of enzymes in microbial cell factories and has emerged as a
promising alternative to chemical synthesis. However, natural enzymes with limited catalytic …

The de novo design and synthesis of yeast chromosome XIII facilitates investigations on aging

C Zhou, Y Wang, Y Huang, Y An, X Fu, D Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In the era of synthetic biology, design, construction, and utilization of synthetic chromosomes
with unique features provide a strategy to study complex cellular processes such as aging …

Chromosome Engineering: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

Y Mao, Y Zhao, Q Zhou, W Li - Annual Review of Animal …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Chromosome engineering is a transformative field at the cutting edge of biological science,
offering unprecedented precision in manipulating large-scale genomic DNA within cells …

Recent development on DNA & genome synthesis

W Yu, J Dai, Y Ma - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
After decades of development, DNA synthesis, assembly, and sequencing technologies
have reached a high level, allowing faster and cheaper acquirements of synthetic genes or …

Rise of synthetic yeast: Charting courses to new applications

GJ Taghon, EA Strychalski - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Microbes have long provided us with important capabilities, and the genome engineering of
microbes has greatly empowered research and applications in biotechnology. This is …

Synthetic chromosome fusion: Effects on mitotic and meiotic genome structure and function

J Luo, LA Vale-Silva, AR Raghavan, G Mercy… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
We designed and synthesized synI, which is∼ 21.6% shorter than native chrI, the smallest
chromosome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. SynI was designed for attachment to another …

Towards the first synthetic eukaryotic cell

W Xu, Y Teng, S Zhou - Biosafety and Health, 2024 - mednexus.org
With the rapid advance in synthetic biology and the expanding field of synthetic genomics,
the realization of a redesigned yeast genome has become an achievable milestone. Multiple …