Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines.

abstract：:Current biopharmaceutical manufacturing strongly relies on using purification platform processes, offering harmonization of practices and speed-to-market. However, the ability of such processes to respond quickly to anticipated higher quality and capacity demands is under question. Here, we describe novel approaches f...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Nfor BK,Verhaert PD,van der Wielen LA,Hubbuch J,Ottens M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated biorefineries have the potential to contribute towards sustainable production of transportation fuels, energy, and chemicals. However, because there are currently no commercial biorefining plants in operation, it is not clear how sustainable they really are. This paper sets out to examine key issues associa...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Azapagic A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diatoms are unicellular, eukaryotic, photosynthetic algae that are found in aquatic environments. Diatoms have enormous ecological importance on this planet and display a diversity of patterns and structures at the nano- to millimetre scale. Diatom nanotechnology, a new interdisciplinary area, has spawned collaboratio...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Gordon R,Losic D,Tiffany MA,Nagy SS,Sterrenburg FA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the recognized potential of viral vectors for gene therapy, growing biological concerns are prompting the exploration of safer, non-viral vectors to deliver therapeutic nucleic acids. In this context, recombinant proteins can be bioproduced on a large scale, without the need for further in vitro modifications,...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Arís A,Villaverde A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Along with the great strides that have been made towards understanding cancer, has come a realization of the complexity of molecular events that lead to malignancy. Proteomics-based approaches, which enable the quantitative investigation of both cellular protein expression levels and protein-protein interactions invol...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Simpson RJ,Dorow DS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface display allows peptides and proteins to be displayed on the surface of microbial cells by fusing them with the anchoring motifs. The protein to be displayed - the passenger protein - can be fused to an anchoring motif - the carrier protein - by N-terminal fusion, C-terminal fusion or sandwich fusion. The ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Lee SY,Choi JH,Xu Z

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promising recognition characteristics exhibited by biomolecules have caused significant interest in biomolecule-based sensor strategies. Here we review several emerging biosensor designs that use modulated electron or energy transfer to a bio-specific ligand as the signaling mechanism. The efficiencies of both ele...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Fan C,Plaxco KW,Heeger AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the goals of synthetic biology is to build regulatory circuits that control cell behavior, for both basic research purposes and biomedical applications. The ability to build transcriptional regulatory devices depends on the availability of programmable, sequence-specific, and effective synthetic transcription f...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Jusiak B,Cleto S,Perez-Piñera P,Lu TK

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered tissues need a vascular network to supply cells with nutrients and oxygen after implantation. A network that can connect to the vasculature of the patient after implantation can be included during in vitro culture. For optimal integration, this network needs to be highly organized, including venules, capill...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Rouwkema J,Khademhosseini A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogens have the ability to vary the antigenic composition of surface-associated antigens. Often, this variation is mediated by the regulation of gene expression. By varying its antigenicity, the pathogen is able to avoid host immune responses more efficiently; however, this makes the design of vaccines against...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Maskell D,Frankel G,Dougan G

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) enable humans to interact with devices by modulating their brain signals. Despite impressive technological advancements, several obstacles remain. The most commonly used BMI control signals are derived from the brain areas involved in primary sensory- or motor-related processing. Howeve...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Min BK,Chavarriaga R,Millán JDR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overall, the meeting was timely and worthwhile. It is evident that there is a need for comparative studies to establish a firm foundation for future work. This is particularly important since it appears that the responses observed are influenced by the particular strain used for attenuation, the means of attenuation, ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic plants that express foreign proteins with industrial or pharmaceutical value represent an economical alternative to fermentation-based production systems. Specific vaccines have been produced in plants as a result of the transient or stable expression of foreign genes. It has recently been shown that genes ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mason HS,Arntzen CJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research infrastructures are essential for top-level academic and industrial research activities. Throughout the successive framework programmes (FPs) of the EU, actions have been gradually developed to support researchers in accessing top-level European research infrastructures located outside their own country and a...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Péro H,Faure JE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued progress in cell-phone devices has made them powerful mobile computers, equipped with sophisticated, permanent physical sensors embedded as the default configuration. By contrast, the incorporation of permanent biosensors in cell-phone units has been prevented by the multivocal nature of the stimuli and the ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Preechaburana P,Suska A,Filippini D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide (N(2)O), the third most abundant greenhouse gas (GHG), is highly stable and plays a significant role in stratospheric ozone destruction. The primary anthropogenic source of N(2)O stems from use of nitrogen fertilizers in soil. The bacterial enzyme nitrous oxide reductase (N(2)OR), naturally found in some...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Wan S,Ward TL,Altosaar I

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise control of transgene expression is pivotal to the engineering of plants with increased disease resistance. Many early attempts to boost disease resistance used constitutive overexpression of defence components but frequently this resulted in poor quality plants. It is now clear that the extensive cellular repr...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Gurr SJ,Rushton PJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis and prognosis is essential for cancer management but is subject to sampling and inter-observer error. In a recent study, Baker et al. compared Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy with histological pathology to evaluate prostate tissue for disease severity. The authors found that bioc...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mackanos MA,Contag CH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-natural, functional RNA molecules, such as short interfering (si) RNAs, aptazymes, maxizymes and intramers, allow modulation of gene function at the mRNA or protein level. This review discusses recent advances made in the expression and application of these functional RNAs and illustrates how engineered, intracell...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Famulok M,Verma S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis and heart disease are still the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The lack of suitable autologous grafts has produced a need for artificial grafts but the patency of such grafts is limited compared to natural materials. Tissue engineering, whereby living tissue replacements can be co...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sales KM,Salacinski HJ,Alobaid N,Mikhail M,Balakrishnan V,Seifalian AM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biohacking is a do-it-yourself citizen science merging body modification with technology. The motivations of biohackers include cybernetic exploration, personal data acquisition, and advocating for privacy rights and open-source medicine. The emergence of a biohacking community has influenced discussions of cultural v...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Yetisen AK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life science in the 21st century is developing rapidly through the structural analysis of biomolecules, the completion of the human genome sequence and the analysis of transcriptomes. The mouse transcriptome has been comprehensively analyzed using a gene discovery approach to collect full-length cDNA (FL-cDNA) clones....

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Hayashizaki Y,Kanamori M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we discuss recent advances in the development of artificial red blood cell (RBC) substitutes, illustrating lessons learned from initial attempts using perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsions and acellular hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs). We also highlight novel oxygen-containing microparticles, nanoparticles, a...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Tao Z,Ghoroghchian PP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes are present at every crime scene and have been used as physical evidence for over a century. Advances in DNA sequencing and computational approaches have led to recent breakthroughs in the use of microbiome approaches for forensic science, particularly in the areas of estimating postmortem intervals (PMIs), l...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Metcalf JL,Xu ZZ,Bouslimani A,Dorrestein P,Carter DO,Knight R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent publication by Michael Longaker and colleagues represents a landmark for the use of adipose tissue as a source of cells for tissue regeneration. The authors investigated the ability of adipose tissue-derived cells (ADCs) to regenerate critical size calvarial (superior portion of the skull) defects in mice by ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Strem BM,Hedrick MH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Room temperature ionic liquids are non-volatile, thermally stable and highly polar; they are also moderately hydrophilic solvents. Here, we discuss their use as reaction media for biocatalysis. Enzymes of widely diverging types are catalytically active in ionic liquids or aqueous biphasic ionic liquid systems. Lipases...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： van Rantwijk F,Madeira Lau R,Sheldon RA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geological storage of CO2 is a fast-developing technology that can mitigate rising carbon emissions. However, there are environmental concerns with the long-term storage and implications of a leak from a carbon capture storage (CCS) site. Traditional monitoring lacks clear protocols and relies heavily on physical meth...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Hicks N,Vik U,Taylor P,Ladoukakis E,Park J,Kolisis F,Jakobsen KS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid prototyping (RP) technologies are a set of manufacturing processes that can produce very complex structures directly from computer-aided design models without structure-specific tools or knowledge. These technologies might eventually enable the manufacture of human livers to create functional substitutes for tre...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yan Y,Zhang R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aroma emissions from living cells can provide valuable information about the metabolic and physiological condition of those cells. Electronic noses are chemical gas-sensor arrays that use artificial neural network models to evaluate aromas. They can interpret the complex aroma information emitted from cultures of bact...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Bachinger T,Mandenius CF

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breath-based metabolomics (breathomics) is an exciting developing area of biotechnology that centers on the capture, identification, and quantification of volatile organic compound (VOC) patterns in human breath and their utilization as tools in the diagnosis of a broad spectrum of medical problems. With the age of pe...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Rattray NJ,Hamrang Z,Trivedi DK,Goodacre R,Fowler SJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00