Emerging Biomedical Applications of Enzyme-Like Catalytic Nanomaterials.

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：:Antibodies to surface proteins of the sexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum block completely the transmission of these malaria parasites. Transmission-blocking vaccines therefore represent a powerful and novel approach to controlling the spread of this lethal disease. ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kaslow DC,Bathurst IC,Barr PJ

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enantiomerically pure cyanohydrins are important synthetic intermediates for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. They are produced by enzyme-catalysed synthesis using oxynitrilases. Sufficient quantities of enzyme are available via cheap natural sources and there have been recent advances in overexpression production o...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Griengl H,Schwab H,Fechter M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques to enable direct communication between the brain and computers/machines, such as the brain-computer interface (BCI) or the brain-machine interface (BMI), are gaining momentum in the neuroscientific realm, with potential applications ranging from medicine to general consumer electronics. Noninvasive BCI tech...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Min BK,Marzelli MJ,Yoo SS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases are of major socioeconomic importance and represent an enormous challenge for the scientific and medical communities. Advances in molecular genetics during the past decade have begun to provide approaches for the establishment of animal models for these disorders using transgenic technology....

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Theuring F,Thunecke M,Kosciessa U,Turner JD

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:This review summarizes synthetic chromosome construction in plants and speculates on how they might be applied to various uses in the future, as well as the possible impact for synthetic biology. The procedures to construct foundational platforms for synthetic chromosomes in plants are described, together with some ch...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Birchler JA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell differentiation is regulated by the complex interplay of multiple parameters, including adhesive intercellular interactions, cytoskeletal and extracellular matrix remodeling, and gradients of agonists and antagonists that individually and collectively vary as a function of spatial locale and temporal stages ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kinney MA,McDevitt TC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microorganisms have long been known as producers of edible oils, opportunities for their biotechnological exploitation are limited to the highest-value commodities. A recent attempt to develop a yeast oil cocoa-butter equivalent has not succeeded, not because of the inability to produce the correct formulatio...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Ratledge C

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：: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：:Bovine mastitis, the most significant disease of dairy herds, has huge effects on farm economics due to reduction in milk production and treatment costs. Traditionally, methods of detection have included estimation of somatic cell counts, an indication of inflammation, measurement of biomarkers associated with the ons...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Viguier C,Arora S,Gilmartin N,Welbeck K,O'Kennedy R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric pressure gas plasmas are emerging as a promising treatment in cancer that can supplement the existing set of treatment modalities and, when combined with other therapies, enhance their selectivity and efficacy against resistant cancers. With further optimisation in production and administration of plasma t...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Dai X,Bazaka K,Richard DJ,Thompson ERW,Ostrikov KK

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are antioxidants with considerable pharmaceutical potential. More than 600 carotenoid structures are known but their availability is limited owing to practical difficulties associated with chemical synthesis and isolation from microorganisms or plant tissue. To overcome some of these problems, heterologous...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sandmann G,Albrecht M,Schnurr G,Knörzer O,Böger P

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro selection from molecular libraries has rapidly come of age as a protein-engineering tool. Dramatic increases in protein affinity can be engineered using phage-display libraries, and specific antibodies can be selected directly from a single 'naïve' library of their genes. Repertoires of small molecules are a ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Clackson T,Wells JA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression 'crystal clear' stems from the science of crystallography, which determines the detailed atomic structures of materials by exposing crystals to X-rays. Protein structures are pivotal to the success of rational drug design and other biotechnology applications; however, obtaining high quality crystals pos...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Saridakis E,Chayen NE

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutasynthesis couples the power of chemical synthesis with molecular biology to generate derivatives of medicinally valuable, natural products. Recently, this technique has been exploited by Cambridge-based biotech company Biotica Technology Ltd, and their collaborators, to generate promising new variants of the polyk...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Weissman KJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein engineers traditionally rely on amino acid substitutions to alter the functional properties of biomacromolecules, yet have largely overlooked the potential benefits of reorganizing the polypeptide chain of a protein by circular permutation (CP). By connecting the native protein termini via a covalent linker an...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Yu Y,Lutz S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides possess several attractive features when compared to small molecule and protein therapeutics, such as high structural compatibility with target proteins, the ability to disrupt protein-protein interfaces, and small size. Efficient design of high-affinity peptide ligands via rational methods has been a major o...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Vanhee P,van der Sloot AM,Verschueren E,Serrano L,Rousseau F,Schymkowitz J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium lining blood vessels expresses molecules that are restricted in their expression to a particular tissue or organ. These molecules are attractive targets for therapy and diagnosis because they allow agents to be delivered specifically to the blood vessels supplying the desired tissue. However, it is dif...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： George AJ,Lee L,Pitzalis C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many microorganisms have been used for the bioindustrial generation of valuable metabolites, the productive potential of cyanobacterial species has remained largely unexplored. Cyanobacteria possess several advantages as organisms for bioindustrial processes, including simple input requirements, tolerance of ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Ducat DC,Way JC,Silver PA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the use of a class of molecules that are activated by light, and which accumulate in, and are retained by, certain abnormal tissues. When these molecules (known as photosensitizers) are activated by light, they cause the formation of active forms of oxygen, which result in the killi...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Levy JG

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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

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：:Predicting the future use of biocatalysts for the transformation of organic compounds--both natural substrates and other compounds--needs to take many factors into account. To date, relatively few biotransformations have been developed to the industrial scale, primarily because there has been little economic incentive...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Faber K,Franssen MC

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine natural products (NP) are unanimously acknowledged as the 'blue gold' in the urgent quest for new pharmaceuticals. Although corals are among the marine organisms with the greatest diversity of secondary metabolites, growing evidence suggest that their symbiotic bacteria produce most of these bioactive metabolit...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Leal MC,Calado R,Sheridan C,Alimonti A,Osinga R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurovascular dysfunction is a central process in the pathogenesis of stroke and most neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. The multicellular neurovascular unit (NVU) combines the neural, vascular and extracellular matrix (ECM) components in an important interface whose correct functioning is crit...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Potjewyd G,Moxon S,Wang T,Domingos M,Hooper NM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of biomolecules using microarrays and other biosensors has a significant role in molecular biotechnology, and will become even more important in the future as a versatile tool for research and diagnostics. For many applications, the synthetic DNA mimic peptide nucleic acid (PNA) could be advantageous as a...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Brandt O,Hoheisel JD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of molecules and cells is fundamental to understanding biological systems. Traditionally, microscopies based on electromagnetic waves such as visible light have been used to localize cellular components by direct visualization. However, these techniques suffer from limitations of transmissibil...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Boulgakov AA,Ellington AD,Marcotte EM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00