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Using Synthetic Biology to Engineer Living Cells That Interface with Programmable Materials
Published on: March 9, 2017
Synthetic biology looks good on paper
Allison J Lopatkin1, Lingchong You1
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Abstract:
Tremendous progress has been made in the design and implementation of synthetic gene circuits, but real-world applications of such circuits have been limited. Cell-free circuits embedded on paper developed by Pardee et al. promise to deliver specific and rapid diagnostics on a low-cost, highly scalable platform.
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