Microfluidic cell culture models for tissue engineering.

abstract：:Bioremediation has historically been approached as a 'black box' in terms of our fundamental understanding. Thus it succeeds and fails, seldom without a complete understanding of why. Systems biology is an integrated research approach to study complex biological systems, by investigating interactions and networks at t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty R,Wu CH,Hazen TC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demand for validated analytical methods for botanicals has grown in response to the increasing consumer market for botanical supplements. Government initiatives to increase the availability of validated analytical methods and botanical reference material have led to the publication of numerous validation studies i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Brown PN,Lister P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have made it possible to expand the genetic alphabet of DNA, which is originally composed of the four-letter alphabet with A-T and G-C pairs, by introducing an unnatural base pair (UBP). Several types of UBPs function as a third base pair in replication, transcription, and/or translation. Through the UB...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee KH,Hamashima K,Kimoto M,Hirao I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of whole genome amplification is something that has arisen in the past few years as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been adapted to replicate regions of genomes that are of biological interest. The applications are many--forensic science, embryonic disease diagnosis, bioterrorism genome detection, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hawkins TL,Detter JC,Richardson PM

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:The delineation of the beta-globin locus control region has led to a new understanding of the developmental regulation of the beta-globin gene cluster. It now seems that globin gene switching is effected through the sequential and mutually exclusive interaction of the locus control region with the embryonic, fetal and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Enver T,Greaves DR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercialization of high-precision microcalorimeters has led to a sharp increase in the acquisition and utilization of calorimetric data on the binding and folding reactions of proteins. This thermodynamic database, together with high-resolution structures of proteins and their complexes with ligands, has facilit...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Connelly PR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical testing of therapies for sepsis that target tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 is currently in progress. It is now clear from early clinical results that patients display a heterogeneous response to anti-cytokine therapies that may be related to the stage or severity of disease. Experimental results show...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Russell DA,Thompson RC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are structured communities of bacteria, which are adhered to a surface and embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Since biofilms are very resistant to antimicrobial agents, they are at the basis of a range of problems, including quality and safety issues in food industry. Re...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Abee T,Kovács AT,Kuipers OP,van der Veen S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, biological nanopores have been developed and explored for use in sensing applications as a result of their exquisite sensitivity and easily engineered, reproducible, and economically manufactured structures. Nanopore sensing has been shown to differentiate between highly similar analytes, meas...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poxviruses are widely used for the cytoplasmic expression of recombinant genes in mammalian cells. Recent improvements allow high expression and simplify the integration of multiple foreign genes. Vaccinia virus mutants and other poxviruses that undergo abortive infection in mammalian cells are receiving special atten...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carroll MW,Moss B

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:The recent adoption of whole plasmid genome sequencing as a routine analytical technique has provided the basis for cataloging the historical events through which plasmids are assembled from the available families of modular plasmid components. Horizontal gene transfer mediated by plasmids plays an important role in t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dennis JJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tremendous advances in biocatalytic approaches to oligosaccharide synthesis have taken place in the past two years. The use of isolated enzymes, both glycosyltransferases and glycosidases, or engineered whole cells allows the preparation of natural oligosaccharides and analogs required for glycobiology research. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Palcic MM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulosic fuels are expected to have great potential industrial applications in the near future, but they still face technical challenges to become cost-competitive fuels, thus presenting many opportunities for improvement. The economical production of viable biofuels requires metabolic engineering of microbial platf...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ko JK,Lee SM

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Marine microbes have received growing attention as sources of bioactive metabolites and offer a unique opportunity to both increase the number of marine natural products in clinical trials as well as expedite their development. This review focuses specifically on those molecules currently in the clinical pipeline that...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Waters AL,Hill RT,Place AR,Hamann MT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid oxidation pathways are attractive for metabolic engineering purposes due to their cyclic nature as well as their reactions that allow for the selective functionalization of alkyl chains. These characteristics allow for the production of various chemicals, such as alcohols, alkanes, ketones and hydroxyacids,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim S,Cheong S,Chou A,Gonzalez R

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Within Escherichia coli and other species, a clear codon bias exists among the 61 amino acid codons found within the population of mRNA molecules, and the level of cognate tRNA appears directly proportional to the frequency of codon usage. Given this situation, one would predict translational problems with an abundant...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kane JF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell wall hydrolases (BCWHs) display a remarkable structural and functional diversity that offers perspectives for novel food applications, reaching beyond those of the archetype BCWH and established biopreservative hen egg white lysozyme. Insights in BCWHs from bacteriophages to animals have provided concep...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Callewaert L,Walmagh M,Michiels CW,Lavigne R

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：:Current progress in computational structure-based protein design is reviewed in the areas of methodology and applications. Foundational advances include new potential functions, more efficient ways of computing energetics, flexible treatments of solvent, and useful energy function approximations, as well as ensemble-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lippow SM,Tidor B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become increasingly widespread in virtually all aspects of molecular biology. Recently, novel ligation-independent methods have been developed for the cloning of DNA fragments amplified using PCR. Ligation-independent cloning utilizing the enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rashtchian A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory networks of transcription factors and signaling molecules lie at the heart of development. Their architecture implements logic functions whose execution propels cells from one regulatory state to the next, thus driving development forward. As an example of a subcircuit that translates transcriptional input ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Materna SC,Davidson EH

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of many efforts and achievements to optimize the prokaryotic expression systems, there are still general and specific problems in obtaining sufficient yields of the functionally active gene products. The main problems concern the formation of inclusion bodies, incorrect folding, toxicity for the producer cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gumpert J,Hoischen C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of gene expression in response to various molecules is crucial for both basic science and practical applications. RNA is considered an attractive material for creating dynamic genetic controllers because of its specific binding to ligands, structural flexibility, programmability, and small size. Her...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jang S,Jang S,Yang J,Seo SW,Jung GY

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Driven by the demand to enhance the economic balance of chemical processes, the transformation of a racemate into a single stereoisomer (the deracemization process) is one of the most important areas of research. The recent development of the combined use of enzyme and metal catalysis has led to efficient deracemizati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pàmies O,Bäckvall JE

更新日期：2003-08-01 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