Globin gene switching: a paradigm or what?

abstract：:The high-throughput identification and accurate quantification of proteins are essential components of proteomic strategies for studying cellular functions and processes. Techniques that are largely based on stable isotope protein or peptide labeling and automated tandem mass spectrometry are increasingly being applie...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tao WA,Aebersold R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ-on-chip systems integrate microfluidic technology and living cells to study human physiology and pathophysiology. These human in vitro models are promising substitutes for animal testing, and their small scale enables precise control of culture conditions and high-throughput experiments, which would not be econo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Luni C,Serena E,Elvassore N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in synthetic and computational chemistry has made it possible to develop certain novel drug candidates. Drug candidates for genetic diseases, such as cancer, may also be designed on the basis of structural information obtained using X-ray analysis and NMR, as well as evidence from biological techniques...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： lida H,Jia G,Lown JW

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary of the in vitro data support a beneficial effect of cranberry or its proanthocyanin constituents by blocking adhesion to and biofilm formation on target tissues of pathogens. In vivo data partially support these beneficial effects. Consumption of various cranberry products benefited young and elderly females i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shmuely H,Ofek I,Weiss EI,Rones Z,Houri-Haddad Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic microfluidics has decisively shifted in recent years from the research on phenomenology and proof-of-concept fluidic functionalities to the developments oriented at applications with biology, medicine and biotechnology in prime focus. Significant efforts are made to demonstrate that microfluidics can be used ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheler O,Postek W,Garstecki P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaffolds are used in tissue engineering as a matrix for the seeding and attachment of human cells. The creation of porosity in three-dimensional (3D) structures of scaffolds plays a critical role in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation into the specific tissue while secreting extracellular matrix compon...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dehghani F,Annabi N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past years, recombinase-based approaches for integrating transgenes into defined chromosomal loci of mammalian cells have gained increasing attention. This method is attractive since it enables to precisely integrate transgenes of interest into pre-defined integration sites, thereby allowing to predict the expr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wirth D,Gama-Norton L,Riemer P,Sandhu U,Schucht R,Hauser H

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have demonstrated value across numerous application areas, with antibiotics a notable historical example. Native cellular hosts provide an initial option in efforts to harness natural product production. However, various complexities associated with native hosts, including fastidious growth traits and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Park D,Swayambhu G,Pfeifer BA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity of industrial production cultures is accepted to a certain degree; however, the underlying mechanisms are seldom perceived or included in the development of new bioprocess control strategies. Population heterogeneity and its basics, perceptible in the diverse proficiency of cells, begins with asymmetric ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Müller S,Harms H,Bley T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants synthesize a myriad of secondary metabolites (SMs) that are derived from central or primary metabolism. While these so-called natural products have been targets for plant metabolic engineering attempts for many years, the immense value of manipulating the interface between committed steps in secondary metabolis...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Aharoni A,Galili G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade has witnessed rapid advance in microbial production of 'drop-in' biofuels from renewable resources. Various biosynthetic pathways have been constructed to produce biofuels with diverse structures, and multiple metabolic engineering strategies have been developed to increase biofuel titers, yields, prod...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jiang W,Gu P,Zhang F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental role of glycoconjugates in many biological processes is now well appreciated and has intensified the development of innovative and improved synthetic strategies. All areas of synthetic methodology have seen major advances and many complex, highly branched carbohydrates and glycoproteins have been prepa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hölemann A,Seeberger PH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of DNA, the sequence of the human genome and our increased understanding of the genetic basis of many inherited and acquired disorders have made the possibility of curing diseases a reality. The modulation of a host's genome is now the ultimate goal in the treatment of genetic diseases. Historically, gene t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kren BT,Steer CJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cell-based tissue-engineering therapies are emerging to regenerate damaged tissues. These strategies use autologous cells in combination with bioresorbable delivery materials. Major functions of a delivery scaffold are to provide initial mechanical stability, homogenous three-dimensional cell distribution, imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sittinger M,Hutmacher DW,Risbud MV

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal bioactive polysaccharides deriving mainly from the Basidiomycetes family (and some from the Ascomycetes) and medicinal mushrooms have been well known and widely used in far Asia as part of traditional diet and medicine, and in the last decades have been the core of intense research for the understanding and the...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Giavasis I

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanopore technology employs a nanoscale hole in an insulating membrane to stochastically sense with high throughput individual biomolecules in solution. The generality of the nanopore detection principle and the ease of single-molecule detection suggest many potential applications of nanopores in biotechnology. Recent...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stoloff DH,Wanunu M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering is not another form of classic manipulation of intermediary metabolism; rather, it is the purposeful design of metabolic networks. The metabolic engineering approach examines biochemical reactions in their entirety, rather than individually, and is concerned with the construction of novel pathway...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant growth and development are tightly regulated by compounds produced in trace amounts in the plant. Besides the classical phytohormones, many plant metabolites have been described to affect plant development. Among these are several phenylpropanoids, although conclusive evidence for their bioactivity at physiologi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanholme B,El Houari I,Boerjan W

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mitigate some of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current land-based-biofuel feedstocks, we propose the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms. Herein we review t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dismukes GC,Carrieri D,Bennette N,Ananyev GM,Posewitz MC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New microbial tools enable detailed quantification and characterization of complex drinking water (DW) microbiomes. Many opportunities exist from source to tap to apply this knowledge toward management of the microbiology. This requires consideration of the microbiome continuum across all phases harboring microbes (pl...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Proctor CR,Hammes F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology efforts began in simple single-cell systems, which were relatively easy to manipulate genetically (Cameron et al., 2014). The field grew exponentially in the last two decades, and one of the latest frontiers are synthetic developmental programs for multicellular mammalian systems (Black et al., 2017;...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Santorelli M,Lam C,Morsut L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant proteins that have survived the challenges of process development and clinical trials are becoming blockbuster medical products. Growth factors, enzymes and antibodies are being improved by mutational approaches, fused with other proteins, and even chemically modified in vitro. Drug development and testing...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Koths K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on projections for global population growth, current techniques for improving agricultural yields will not be able to address future demands for major food crops. Improving photosynthetic efficiency by engineering carbon fixation has been identified as one of the most important approaches for increasing agricult...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Giessen TW,Silver PA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transportation fuels will gradually shift from oil based fuels towards alternative fuel resources like biofuels. Current bioethanol and biodiesel can, however, not cover the increasing demand for biofuels and there is therefore a need for advanced biofuels with superior fuel properties. Novel cell factories will provi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： de Jong B,Siewers V,Nielsen J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic proteins provide important information about the principles of protein structure. They illuminate the processes of natural protein evaluation, but are not limited by these processes. Here, we review studies of several mutant proteins and discuss the general principles that can be derived from them. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pastore A,Lesk AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of ultrafast laser pulses in surgery has allowed for unprecedented precision with minimal collateral damage to surrounding tissues. For these reasons, ultrafast laser nanosurgery, as an injury model, has gained tremendous momentum in experimental biology ranging from in vitro manipulations of subcellular struc...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ben-Yakar A,Bourgeois F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring microbial consortia have been utilized in a variety of bioremediation processes. Recent developments in molecular microbial ecology offer new tools that facilitate molecular analyses of microbial populations at contaminated and bioremediated sites. Information provided by such analyses aids in the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Watanabe K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly evident that intermediates observed in protein folding in vitro may be closely related to conformational states that are important in various intracellular processes. This review focuses on recent advances in in vitro protein-folding studies with particular reference to the molten globule s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kuwajima K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and adult stem cells both provide important resources to define the mechanisms of hematopoietic cell development. To date, studies that utilize hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) isolated from sites such as bone marrow or umbilical cord blood have been the primary means to identify molecular a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Martin CH,Kaufman DS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomic analysis include improved technology for DNA sequencing, routine use of DNA microarray technology for the analysis of gene expression profiles at the mRNA level and improved informatic tools to organize and analyze such data. At the same time, new developments in chip-based analysis of samples and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee PS,Lee KH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00