Abstract:
:Engineering artificial cells to mimic one or multiple fundamental cell biological functions is an emerging area of synthetic biology. Reconstituting functional modules from biological components in vitro is a challenging yet an important essence of bottom-up synthetic biology. Here we describe the concept of building artificial platelets using bottom-up synthetic biology and the four functional modules that together could enable such an ambitious effort.
journal_name
Phys Bioljournal_title
Physical biologyauthors
Majumder S,Liu APdoi
10.1088/1478-3975/aa9768subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-12-06 00:00:00pages
013001issue
1eissn
1478-3967issn
1478-3975journal_volume
15pub_type
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