Ultrafast laser nanosurgery in microfluidics for genome-wide screenings.

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：:Generating novel functionality from well characterised synthetic parts and modules lies at the heart of synthetic biology. Ideally, circuitry is rationally designed in silico with quantitatively predictive models to predetermined design specifications. Synthetic circuits are intrinsically stochastic, often dynamically...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Prangemeier T,Lehr FX,Schoeman RM,Koeppl H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-independent approaches, such as next-generation sequencing and microarray-based tools, provide insight into the identity and functional diversity of microbial communities. Although these approaches are potentially powerful tools in understanding microbial structure and function, there are a number of limitatio...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hazen TC,Rocha AM,Techtmann SM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most significant feature of the current transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease continues to be the amyloid phenotype. In the past year, mice have been more extensively characterized in terms of the effect of amyloid accumulation on downstream events, such as neurodegeneration and behavioral changes, but the resu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Duff K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the review period, a significant amount of literature has been published documenting the impact of biofilms on engineered and biomedical systems. Reactor systems and analytical techniques have evolved to study the molecular chemistry and microbial ecology within biofilm layers only tens of micrometers thick, and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bryers JD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in quality, quantity, and complexity of recombinant products heavily drives the need to predictably engineer model and complex (mammalian) cell systems. However, until recently, limited tools offered the ability to precisely manipulate their genomes, thus impeding the full potential of rational cell line ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cheng JK,Alper HS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR methods in drug discovery have traditionally been used to obtain structural information for drug targets or target-ligand complexes. Recently, it has been shown that NMR may be used as an alternative approach for identification of ligands that bind to protein drug targets, shifting the emphasis of many NMR laborat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Moore JM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous production of polyketide compounds, an important class of natural products with complex chemical structures, was first demonstrated with Streptomyces parvulus in 1984. Although Streptomyces strains are good first options for heterologous polyketide biosynthesis, their slow growth kinetics prompt other hos...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yuzawa S,Kim W,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have a remarkable capacity for the production of a wide range of metabolites. Much has been reported and reviewed on the diversity of these metabolites and how it is achieved, for example through the evolution of enzyme families. In comparison, relatively little is known on the extraordinary metabolic productiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tissier A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative information about metabolic networks has been mainly obtained at the level of metabolite contents, transcript abundance, and enzyme activities. However, the active process of metabolism is represented by the flow of matter through the pathways. These metabolic fluxes can be predicted by Flux Balance Analy...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Junker BH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes have been used as a surrogate genetic system for the study of many facets of gene expression. Some recent salient examples where injected oocytes proved to be indispensable for the analysis of transcription, translation, RNA/protein transport, and ion channel formation are described. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Richter JD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris, are major hosts employed in the expression of authentic heterologous proteins of high quality in the biopharmaceutical, industrial and academic environments. There has been recent progress in characterizing and controlling the factors involved in determin...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eckart MR,Bussineau CM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad application of microbial fuel cells will require substantial increases in current density. A better understanding of the microbiology of these systems may help. Recent studies have greatly expanded the range of microorganisms known to function either as electrode-reducing microorganisms at the anode or as electr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made in understanding the relationship between local amino acid sequence and local protein structure. Recent highlights include numerous studies of the structures adopted by short peptides, new approaches to correlating sequence patterns with structure patterns, and folding simulations u...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bystroff C,Simons KT,Han KF,Baker D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advancements in high-throughput large-scale analytical methods to sequence genomes of organisms, and to quantify gene expression, proteins, lipids and metabolites have changed the paradigm of metabolic modeling. The cost of data generation and analysis has decreased significantly, which has allowed exponential ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rai A,Saito K

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of food components by microbes occurs both during certain food production processes and in the gastro-intestinal tract. In these processes specific compounds are produced that originate from either biotransformation reactions or biosynthesis, and that can affect the health of the consumer. In this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Veiga P,Zhang C,Derrien M,Zhao L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA plays important roles in the regulation of gene expressions and other cellular functions. It functions as both as an informational carrier and a nanomachine due to its complementary base-pairing ability and complexed three-dimensional structure. Several nanostructures have been designed and constructed by exploiti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohno H,Akamine S,Saito H

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in protein expression in E. coli have focused primarily on the enhancement of protein quality. Problems in mRNA translation such as inefficient initiation, mistranslation, frame-shifting and frame-hopping can often be addressed by altering heterologous gene-coding sequences. Fusion technology can also ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Olins PO,Lee SC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphenols are thought to be responsible for some of the health effects conferred by a diet rich in fruit and vegetables. Both the formation of bioactive polyphenol-derived metabolites and the modulation of colonic microbiota contribute to these health benefits. Therefore, one cannot infer biological responses from d...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bolca S,Van de Wiele T,Possemiers S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to 'live' vaccines, the immunogenicity of 'split' vaccines based on recombinant antigen (Ag) is poor, presumably because exogeneous recombinant Ag fails to efficiently access the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I processing pathway needed for 'cross-presentation'. Here we discuss recent evidence ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wagner H,Heit A,Schmitz F,Bauer S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity within the geobiosphere encompasses enormous sensing capabilities and many non-model bacteria are of biotechnological interest. Biosensing, or more generally inducible, systems are a vital component of metabolic engineering, as they allow tight control of gene expression as well as the basis for high...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim NM,Sinnott RW,Sandoval NR

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the ambitions of synthetic biology approach genome-scale engineering, comprehensive characterization of cellular systems is required, as well as a means to accurately model cell-scale molecular interactions. These requirements are coincident with the goals of systems biology and, thus, systems biology will become t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett CL,Kim TY,Kim HU,Palsson BØ,Lee SY

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion is the default process for biological conversion of residue organics to renewable energy and biofuel in the form of methane. However, its scope of application is expanding, due to availability of new technologies, and the emerging drivers of energy and nutrient conservation and recovery. Here, we o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Batstone DJ,Virdis B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate nearly every living process; the exploration of global and pathway-specific protein interaction networks is expected to have major implications in the understanding of diseases and for drug discovery. Consequently, the development and application of methodologies...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Suter B,Kittanakom S,Stagljar I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of biological systems in which there is a direct link between the challenges faced by marine organisms and biotechnologies enable us to rationally search for active natural compounds and other novel biotechnologies. This approach is proving successful in developing new methods for the prevention of marine biof...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： de Nys R,Steinberg PD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the consumption of seafood and shellfish increases around the world, so is the incidence of associated outbreaks of illness. Various postharvest treatments are effective at killing seafood-associated bacteria, but most of these treatments also kill the mollusks. Because consumer preferences for raw live shellfish p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Teplitski M,Wright AC,Lorca G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in emerging food-processing technologies, such as high hydrostatic pressure or high-intensity electric field pulses, allow targeted and sophisticated modification and preservation of foods. We are beginning to understand the mechanisms involved in pressure inactivation of bacterial spores and have been...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Knorr D

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Direct reprogramming of somatic cells to a pluripotent state, substantiated only three years prior, is one of the most rapidly developing areas of stem cell research. The generation of patient-derived pluripotent cells applicable to disease modelling, drug screening, toxicology tests and, ultimately, autologous cell-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Malley J,Woltjen K,Kaji K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial biocatalysis is an emerging technology in the field of drug discovery. The biocatalytic approach to combinatorial chemistry uses enzymatic, chemoenzymatic, and microbial transformations to generate libraries from lead compounds. Important recent advances in combinatorial biocatalysis include iterative de...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Altreuter DH,Clark DS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00