Abstract：
:Synthetic biology offers a bottom-up engineering approach that intends to understand complex systems via design-build-test cycles. Embryonic development comprises complex processes that originate at the level of gene regulatory networks in a cell and emerge into collective cellular behaviors with multicellular forms and functions. Here, we review synthetic biology approaches to development that involve building de novo developmental trajectories or engineering control in stem cell-derived multicellular systems. The field of synthetic developmental biology is rapidly growing with the help of recent advances in artificial gene circuits, self-organizing organoids, and controllable tissue microenvironments. The outcome will be a blueprint to decode principles of morphogenesis and to create programmable organoids with novel designs or improved functions.
journal_name
Curr Opin Chem Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in chemical biologyauthors
Ebrahimkhani MR,Ebisuya Mdoi
10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.04.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-10-01 00:00:00pages
9-15eissn
1367-5931issn
1879-0402pii
S1367-5931(19)30046-8journal_volume
52pub_type
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology
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