Most of the metal ions are carcinogens and lead to serious health concerns by producing
free radicals. Hence, fast and accurate detection of metal ions has become a critical issue …

Biosensors are analytical devices having high sensitivity, portability, small sample
requirement and ease of use for qualitative and quantitative monitoring of various analytes …

Modular and orthogonal genetic logic gates are essential for building robust biologically
based digital devices to customize cell signalling in synthetic biology. Here we constructed …

Cells perceive a wide variety of cellular and environmental signals, which are often
processed combinatorially to generate particular phenotypic responses. Here, we employ …

Organophosphate (OP) pesticides cause hundreds of illnesses and deaths annually.
Unfortunately, exposures are often detected by monitoring degradation products in blood …

Genetically engineered microbial biosensors have yet to realize commercial success in
environmental applications due, in part, to difficulties associated with transducing and …

Phytobial remediation is an innovative tool that uses plants and microbes to mitigate Arsenic
(As) contamination of the environment. Recently, plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) …

Approximately 94 to 220 million people worldwide are at risk of drinking well water
containing arsenic> 10 µg/L, the WHO guideline value. To identify non-compliant domestic …

Metals are a finite resource and their demand for use within existing and new technologies
means metal scarcity is increasingly a global challenge. Conversely, there are areas …

We have created the Knowledgebase of Standard Biological Parts (SBPkb) as a publically
accessible Semantic Web resource for synthetic biology (sbolstandard. org). The SBPkb …