Synthetic biology looks good on paper

Allison J Lopatkin; Lingchong You

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.003

Synthetic biology looks good on paper

Cell. 2014 Nov 6;159(4):718-20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.003. Epub 2014 Oct 24.

Authors

Allison J Lopatkin¹, Lingchong You²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 25417149
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.003

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Comment

MeSH terms

Cell-Free System*
Gene Regulatory Networks*
In Vitro Techniques*