Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

Materials design by synthetic biology

TC Tang, B An, Y Huang, S Vasikaran, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology applies genetic tools to engineer living cells and organisms analogous to
the programming of machines. In materials synthetic biology, engineering principles from …

The living interface between synthetic biology and biomaterial design

AP Liu, EA Appel, PD Ashby, BM Baker, E Franco… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Recent far-reaching advances in synthetic biology have yielded exciting tools for the
creation of new materials. Conversely, advances in the fundamental understanding of soft …

Bacterial biopolymers: from pathogenesis to advanced materials

MF Moradali, BHA Rehm - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Bacteria are prime cell factories that can efficiently convert carbon and nitrogen sources into
a large diversity of intracellular and extracellular biopolymers, such as polysaccharides …

Applications, challenges, and needs for employing synthetic biology beyond the lab

SM Brooks, HS Alper - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology holds great promise for addressing global needs. However, most current
developments are not immediately translatable to 'outside-the-lab'scenarios that differ from …

Self-assembling peptide and protein amyloids: from structure to tailored function in nanotechnology

G Wei, Z Su, NP Reynolds, P Arosio… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled peptide and protein amyloid nanostructures have traditionally been
considered only as pathological aggregates implicated in human neurodegenerative …

Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for the delivery of matrix-tethered therapeutic domains to the gut

P Praveschotinunt, AM Duraj-Thatte, I Gelfat… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mucosal healing plays a critical role in combatting the effects of inflammatory bowel disease,
fistulae and ulcers. While most treatments for such diseases focus on systemically delivered …

Molecular insights into extracellular polymeric substances in activated sludge

HQ Yu - Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are known to crucially affect the properties and
performance of activated sludge, but the detailed influential mechanisms and the pertinence …

Engineered living materials: prospects and challenges for using biological systems to direct the assembly of smart materials

PQ Nguyen, NMD Courchesne… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Vast potential exists for the development of novel, engineered platforms that manipulate
biology for the production of programmed advanced materials. Such systems would possess …