abstract：:It is possible to improve the sensitivity of immunoassays by several orders of magnitude by exploiting nanoenvironmental effects. This approach can detect trace amounts of compounds and will better illuminate the presence of signal substances in biological systems. Here we describe a method for ultrasensitive immunoas...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mattiasson B,Teeparuksapun K,Lebogang L,Hedström M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-mediated manipulation of genomic information is becoming more versatile by combining nuclease-deficient CRISPR systems with a wide variety of effectors including base-editing deaminases, transcriptional regulators, and epigenetic modifiers. The program...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mitsunobu H,Teramoto J,Nishida K,Kondo A

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Along with the development of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology tools, various microbes are being used to produce aromatic chemicals. In microbes, aromatics are mainly produced via a common important precursor, chorismate, in the shikimate pathway. Natural or non-natural aromatics have been produced by engin...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Noda S,Kondo A

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Acidity is a biomarker of cancer that is not subject to the blunting clonal selection effects that reduce the efficacy of other biomarker technologies, such as antibody targeting. The pH (low) insertion peptides (pHLIP®s) provide new opportunities for targeting acidic tissues. Through the physical mechanism of membran...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Wyatt LC,Lewis JS,Andreev OA,Reshetnyak YK,Engelman DM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is still some skepticism in the biological community regarding the value and significance of quantitative computational modeling, important steps are continually being taken to enhance its accessibility and predictive power. We view these developments as essential components of an emerging 'respectful m...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Tsigkinopoulou A,Baker SM,Breitling R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spheroids provide a 3D environment with intensive cell-cell contacts. As a result of their excellent regenerative properties and rapid progress in their high-throughput production, spheroids are increasingly suggested as building blocks for tissue engineering. In this review, we focus on innovative biotechnological ap...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Laschke MW,Menger MD

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the demands in the production of microalgae at a technical scale cannot presently be met by state-of-the-art cultivation technologies based on suspensions. Immobilized cultivation using porous substrate bioreactors (PSBRs) is characterized by a reduction of liquid reaction volumes by several orders of magnitud...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Podola B,Li T,Melkonian M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravital imaging enables to study dynamic tumour-stroma interactions within primary and metastatic sites, including the lung. The combination of optical windows with specific molecular probes targeting the tumour microenvironment will provide new insights into prometastatic stromal interactions and lead to novel the...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kitamura T,Pollard JW,Vendrell M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The ascomycete Trichoderma reesei is one of the most well studied cellulolytic microorganisms. This fungus is widely used in the biotechnology industry, mainly in the production of biofuels. Due to its importance, its genome was sequenced in 2008, opening new avenues to study this microorganism. In this 'post-genomic'...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Gupta VK,Steindorff AS,de Paula RG,Silva-Rocha R,Mach-Aigner AR,Mach RL,Silva RN

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioelectrochemical power-to-gas (BEP2G) is considered a potentially convenient way of storing renewable surplus electricity in the form of methane. In methane-producing bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), carbon dioxide and electrical energy are converted into methane, using electrodes that supply either electrons or h...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Geppert F,Liu D,van Eerten-Jansen M,Weidner E,Buisman C,Ter Heijne A

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Cultured mammalian cells are the main workhorses for producing biologics. The performance of these cell culture processes, in terms of both productivity and product quality attributes, is significantly influenced by cellular metabolism. Glucose is the major carbon source for cellular biosynthesis and energy generation...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mulukutla BC,Yongky A,Le T,Mashek DG,Hu WS

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:The announcement that the European Union (EU) had reached an agreement allowing Member States (MS) to ban genetically modified (GM) crops confirms that the EU has chosen to ignore the food security challenge issued to the world by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2009. The FAO sugge...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Smyth SJ,Phillips PWB,Kerr WA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher fungi with greater than 70000 species are regarded as a rich source of various natural compounds including terpenoids, the production of which represents a wide range of interest in pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. This review summarizes the current knowledge of terpenoids synthesized by higher fungi, ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Xiao H,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle has been used for decades in the microbial production of chemicals such as citrate, L-glutamate, and succinate. Maximizing yield is key for cost-competitive production. However, for most TCA cycle products, the maximum pathway yield is lower than the theoretical maximum yield (Y(E))....

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Vuoristo KS,Mars AE,Sanders JPM,Eggink G,Weusthuis RA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a family of ∼2500 alkaloids with both potential and realized pharmaceutical value, including most notably the opiates such as codeine and morphine. Only a few BIAs accumulate readily in plants, which limits the pharmaceutical potential of the family. Shifting BIA production to m...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Narcross L,Fossati E,Bourgeois L,Dueber JE,Martin VJJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Building robust manufacturing processes from biological components is a task that is highly complex and requires sophisticated tools to describe processes, inputs, and measurements and administrate management of knowledge, data, and materials. We argue that for bioengineering to fully access biological potential, it w...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sadowski MI,Grant C,Fell TS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Challenges in demonstrating interchangeability and safety, as well as the ongoing evolution of regulations governing biosimilars, have meant that the development of the biosimilars industry has not been, and will not be, a carbon copy of the generics industry. Complexity in the development process reduces the cost adv...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Konara CS,Barnard RT,Hine D,Siegel E,Ferro V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is currently driving the dental materials industry to substantial growth, thus reflecting on improvements in materials available for oral prevention and treatment. The present review discusses new developments in nanotechnology applied to dentistry, focusing on the use of nanomaterials for improving the...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Padovani GC,Feitosa VP,Sauro S,Tay FR,Durán G,Paula AJ,Durán N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct delivery of purified Cas9 protein with guide RNA into plant cells, as opposed to plasmid-mediated delivery, displays high efficiency and reduced off-target effects. Following regeneration from edited cells, the ensuing plant is also likely to bypass genetically modified organism (GMO) legislation as the genome ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kanchiswamy CN,Malnoy M,Velasco R,Kim JS,Viola R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global movement of people and goods has increased the risk of biosecurity threats and their potential to incur large economic, social, and environmental costs. Conventional manual biosecurity surveillance methods are limited by their scalability in space and time. This article focuses on autonomous surveillance sy...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Jurdak R,Elfes A,Kusy B,Tews A,Hu W,Hernandez E,Kottege N,Sikka P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe factors promoting the exploration of locally sourced probiotics, targeting local populations to balance human needs and market opportunities. This would be particularly beneficial for people in developing countries, who generally lack access to affordable probiotics and are often exposed to poor hygiene co...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sybesma W,Kort R,Lee YK

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulations regarding health claims made for probiotics demand their proven effectiveness and limit the array of microbial species regarded as safe for live consumption. Novel strategies such as moving to postbiotics and genetically modified probiotics may be necessary to increase the effectiveness of microbial produc...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Gosálbez L,Ramón D

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Microfluidic devices offer automation and high-throughput screening, and operate at low volumes of consumables. Although microfluidics has the potential to reduce turnaround times and costs for analytical devices, particularly in medical, veterinary, and environmental sciences, this enabling technology has had limited...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Volpatti LR,Yetisen AK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wearable sensors have garnered considerable recent interest owing to their tremendous promise for a plethora of applications. Yet the absence of reliable non-invasive chemical sensors has greatly hindered progress in the area of on-body sensing. Electrochemical sensors offer considerable promise as wearable chemical s...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Bandodkar AJ,Wang J

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Taxol® (generic name paclitaxel) represents one of the most clinically valuable natural products known to mankind in the recent past. More than two decades have elapsed since the notable discovery of the first Taxol®-producing endophytic fungus, which was followed by a plethora of reports on other endophytes possessin...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kusari S,Singh S,Jayabaskaran C

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising global demand for meat will result in increased environmental pollution, energy consumption, and animal suffering. Cultured meat, produced in an animal-cell cultivation process, is a technically feasible alternative lacking these disadvantages, provided that an animal-component-free growth medium can be develop...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： van der Weele C,Tramper J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrational spectroscopy using both infrared and Raman spectroscopies has been used in recent years with the aim to aid clinicians in disease diagnosis. More recently, these techniques have been applied to study stem cell differentiation and to determine stem cell presence in tissues. These studies have demonstrated t...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sulé-Suso J,Forsyth NR,Untereiner V,Sockalingum GD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive use of chemical insecticides for insect pest management has resulted in insecticide resistance now being recorded in >500 species of insects and mites. Although gut-active toxins such as those derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been successfully used for insect pest management, a diverse range...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Bonning BC,Chougule NP

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:We review published data on cell/gamete lyophilization. Most studies have utilized the same established protocols for cryopreservation (storage in liquid nitrogen) as for cell lyophilization (dehydration of frozen samples by water sublimation). Surveying natural lyoprotectants, we suggest trehalose and late embryogene...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Loi P,Iuso D,Czernik M,Zacchini F,Ptak G

更新日期：2013-12-01 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