Ingeniería espacial de E. coli con ARN separados por fases direccionables

Haotian Guo1, Joseph C Ryan1, Xiaohu Song1

  • 1Université de Paris, INSERM U1284, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), 75006 Paris, France.

Cell
|September 30, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores crearon orgánulos sin membrana sintéticos en bacterias llamadas gotas de disolvente de ARN direccionables por ingeniería de transcripción (TEARS). Estas lágrimas permiten el control espacial de los procesos bioquímicos, avanzando en la bioingeniería bacteriana.

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