Designing cell function: assembly of synthetic gene circuits for cell biology applications

M Xie, M Fussenegger - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

Microneedle biomedical devices

M Zheng, T Sheng, J Yu, Z Gu, C Xu - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024 - nature.com
Microneedle (MN) technologies have gained interest for biomedical applications, ranging
from drug delivery to sensing and tissue sampling in skin and internal organs. The …

Large-scale design of robust genetic circuits with multiple inputs and outputs for mammalian cells

BH Weinberg, NTH Pham, LD Caraballo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Engineered genetic circuits for mammalian cells often require extensive fine-tuning to
perform as intended. We present a robust, general, scalable system, called'Boolean logic …

Programmable protein circuit design

Z Chen, MB Elowitz - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
A fundamental challenge in synthetic biology is to create molecular circuits that can program
complex cellular functions. Because proteins can bind, cleave, and chemically modify one …

Synthetic biology—the synthesis of biology

S Ausländer, D Ausländer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic biology concerns the engineering of man‐made living biomachines from
standardized components that can perform predefined functions in a (self‐) controlled …

Synthetic gene circuits for the detection, elimination and prevention of disease

F Sedlmayer, D Aubel, M Fussenegger - Nature biomedical engineering, 2018 - nature.com
In living organisms, naturally evolved sensors that constantly monitor and process
environmental cues trigger corrective actions that enable the organisms to cope with …

Light-switchable transcription factors obtained by direct screening in mammalian cells

L Zhu, HM McNamara, JE Toettcher - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Optogenetic tools can provide fine spatial and temporal control over many biological
processes. Yet the development of new light-switchable protein variants remains …

Understanding biological regulation through synthetic biology

CJ Bashor, JJ Collins - Annual review of biophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Engineering synthetic gene regulatory circuits proceeds through iterative cycles of design,
building, and testing. Initial circuit designs must rely on often-incomplete models of …

Massively parallel RNA device engineering in mammalian cells with RNA-Seq

JS Xiang, M Kaplan, P Dykstra, M Hinks… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Synthetic RNA-based genetic devices dynamically control a wide range of gene-regulatory
processes across diverse cell types. However, the limited throughput of quantitative assays …

Tools and applications in synthetic biology

IC MacDonald, TL Deans - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Advances in synthetic biology have enabled the engineering of cells with genetic circuits in
order to program cells with new biological behavior, dynamic gene expression, and logic …