Lack of access to safe drinking water is a global problem, and methods to reliably and easily
detect contaminants could be transformative. We report the development of a cell-free in …

While the research field and industrial market of in vitro diagnosis (IVD) thrived during and
post the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of isothermal nucleic acid amplification test …

Insights from novel mechanistic paradigms in gene expression control have led to the
development of new gene expression systems for bioproduction, control, and sensing …

Here we show a general approach to achieve dissipative control over toehold‐mediated
strand‐displacement, the most widely employed reaction in the field of DNA …

We demonstrate here the use of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-cyanopropanoic acid (CPA) and
nitroacetic acid (NAA) as convenient chemical fuels to drive the dissipative operation of DNA …

Living cells have the ability to control the dynamics of responsive assemblies such as the
cytoskeleton by temporally activating and deactivating inert precursors. While DNA …

Protein-based fluorescent reporters have been widely used to characterize and localize
biological processes in living cells. However, these reporters may have certain drawbacks …

In recent years, a diverse set of mechanisms have been developed that allow DNA strands
with specific sequences to sense information in their environment and to control material …

The capacity to precisely modulate aptamer affinity is important for a wide variety of
applications. However, most such engineering strategies entail laborious trial‐and‐error …

The cell-free system is a tool that harnesses the complex biological processes outside of
living cells. Owing to the system's superior flexibility and manipulability, it has matured its …