Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Ultrahigh-Throughput Enzyme Engineering and Discovery in In Vitro Compartments

M Gantz, S Neun, EJ Medcalf, LD van Vliet… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Novel and improved biocatalysts are increasingly sourced from libraries via experimental
screening. The success of such campaigns is crucially dependent on the number of …

3D‐printed microfluidics

AK Au, W Huynh, LF Horowitz… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of soft lithography allowed for an unprecedented expansion in the field of
microfluidics. However, the vast majority of PDMS microfluidic devices are still made with …

Single-cell analysis tools for drug discovery and development

JR Heath, A Ribas, PS Mischel - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The genetic, functional or compositional heterogeneity of healthy and diseased tissues
presents major challenges in drug discovery and development. Such heterogeneity hinders …

Single-cell analysis and sorting using droplet-based microfluidics

L Mazutis, J Gilbert, WL Ung, DA Weitz, AD Griffiths… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
We present a droplet-based microfluidics protocol for high-throughput analysis and sorting
of single cells. Compartmentalization of single cells in droplets enables the analysis of …

Liquid-infused structured surfaces with exceptional anti-biofouling performance

AK Epstein, TS Wong, RA Belisle… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Bacteria primarily exist in robust, surface-associated communities known as biofilms,
ubiquitous in both natural and anthropogenic environments. Mature biofilms resist a wide …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Surfactants in droplet-based microfluidics

JC Baret - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Surfactants are an essential part of the droplet-based microfluidic technology. They are
involved in the stabilization of droplet interfaces, in the biocompatibility of the system and in …

Droplet microfluidics—A tool for single‐cell analysis

HN Joensson… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet microfluidics allows the isolation of single cells and reagents in monodisperse
picoliter liquid capsules and manipulations at a throughput of thousands of droplets per …