Synthetic biology offers great promise to a variety of applications through the forward
engineering of biological function. Most efforts in this field have focused on employing living …

Synthetic biology integrates diverse engineering disciplines to create novel biological
systems for biomedical and technological applications. The substantial growth of the …

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 …

Unnatural gene expression imposes a load on engineered microorganisms which
decreases their growth and subsequent production yields, a phenomenon known as burden …

The emerging field of synthetic biology builds gene circuits for scientific, industrial and
therapeutic needs. Adaptability of synthetic gene circuits across different organisms could …

Cell-free protein synthesis is becoming a powerful technique to construct and to study
complex informational processes in vitro. Engineering synthetic gene circuits in a test tube …

Cell‐free expression systems enable rapid prototyping of genetic programs in vitro.
However, current throughput of cell‐free measurements is limited by the use of channel …

Synthetic biology aspires to develop frameworks that enable the construction of complex
and reliable gene networks with predictable functionalities. A key limitation is that increasing …

Integrating synthetic biology and systems biology efforts can advance our understanding of
biomolecular systems. This is illustrated in this issue by Cantone et al.(2009), who construct …

In synthetic biology, researchers assemble biological components in new ways to produce
systems with practical applications. One of these practical applications is control of the flow …