To support an ever-increasing population, modern agriculture faces numerous challenges
that pose major threats to global food and energy security. Plant-associated microbes, with …

The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

Develo** molecular communication platforms based on orthogonal communication
channels is a crucial step towards engineering artificial multicellular systems. Here, we …

With much advancement in the field of nanotechnology, bioengineering, and synthetic
biology over the past decade, microscales and nanoscales devices are becoming a reality …

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 …

Background: Pressure overload–induced pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a common
predecessor of heart failure, the latter of which remains a major cardiovascular disease with …

Synthetic biology is the discipline of engineering application-driven biological functionalities
that were not evolved by nature. Early breakthroughs of cell engineering, which were based …

Metabolic pathways are often engineered in single microbial populations. However, the
introduction of heterologous circuits into the host can create a substantial metabolic burden …

Synthetic biology is bringing together engineers and biologists to design and build novel
biomolecular components, networks and pathways, and to use these constructs to rewire …

Logic and memory are essential functions of circuits that generate complex, state-dependent
responses. Here we describe a strategy for efficiently assembling synthetic genetic circuits …