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Advancing Cell-Free Synthetic Biology: From sustained PURE protein synthesis to an isothermal one-pot DNA replication system

One of the goals of synthetic biology is the development of an artificial cell. Building an artificial cell from scratch will provide a deeper understanding of fundamental mechanisms and models in biology and promises to contribute towards building novel p ...

EPFL2024

Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Melania Reggente, Mohammed Mouhib, Hanxuan Wang, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie Roullier, Fabian Fischer, Patricia Brandl

Living photovoltaics are microbial electrochemical devices that use whole cell–electrode interactions to convert solar energy to electricity. The bottleneck in these technologies is the limited electron transfer between the microbe and the electrode surfac ...

2024

Water-permeation sensor and method for making the same

Yves Leterrier, Stéphanie Lacour, Kyungjin Kim, Massimo Mariello

A water permeation sensor suitable for monitoring and quantitatively assessing ultra-low permeability of thin film encapsulations engineered for bioelectronic microdevices, its fabrication as well as device comprising the same are disclosed herein. ...

2024

Resolving bacterial cell biology: from replisome dynamics to cell wall synthesis

Chen Zhang

Bacteria are ubiquitous single cellular organisms. Compared to eukaryotic cells, bacteria have two unique characteristics: the membrane-less nucleoid and the cell wall built of peptidoglycan (PG). In most bacteria, a single circular chromosome is compacted ...

EPFL2024

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

Didier Trono, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Beat Fierz, Priscilla Turelli, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Dongchun Ni, Michael Bronstein, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Zander Harteveld, Andreas Scheck, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Anthony Marchand, Alexandra Teslenko, Casper Alexander Goverde, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Stephen Michael Buckley, Martin Pacesa, Stéphane Rosset, Sarah Wehrle, Freyr Sverrisson, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Jane Marsden

Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to understand, even as genomic, proteomic and structural data increase. This k ...

2023

Passive and Deterministic Droplet Microfluidics for Single Object Encapsulation and Pairing

Jiande Zhou

The single-cell study, which dissects cell-cell heterogeneity from bulk populations, is of growing attention and importance in biological studies and clinical practices. At the core of the single-cell analysis is the efficient cell isolation and constructi ...

EPFL2023

DNA-Liposome Hybrid Carriers for Triggered Cargo Release

Diana Kornelia Morzy

The design of simple and versatile synthetic routes to accomplish triggered-release properties in carriers is of particular interest for drug delivery purposes. In this context, the programmability and adaptability of DNA nanoarchitectures in combination w ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

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Increasing the protein production capacity of the PURE cell-free transcription-translation (TX-TL) system will be key to implementing complex synthetic biological circuits, and to establishing a fully self-regenerating system as a basis for the development ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

p High-Throughput Single-Cell TCR-pMHC Dissociation Rate Measurements Performed by an Autonomous Microfluidic Cellular Processing Unit

Sebastian Maerkl, George Coukos, Fabien Louis Claude Robert Jammes

We developed an integrated microfluidic cellular processing unit (mCPU) capable of autonomously isolating single cells and performing measurements and on-the-fly analysis of cell- surface dissociation rates, followed by recovery of selected cells. We perfo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Organoids as tools for fundamental discovery and translation-A Keystone Symposia report

Matthias Lütolf

Complex three-dimensional in vitro organ-like models, or organoids, offer a unique biological tool with distinct advantages over two-dimensional cell culture systems, which can be too simplistic, and animal models, which can be too complex and may fail to ...

WILEY2022

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