abstract：:Cellular microarrays are powerful experimental tools for high-throughput screening of large numbers of test samples. Miniaturization increases assay throughput while reducing reagent consumption and the number of cells required, making these systems attractive for a wide range of assays in drug discovery, toxicology, ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Fernandes TG,Diogo MM,Clark DS,Dordick JS,Cabral JM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of genetically engineered (GE) foods has been raising several concerns and controversies that divide not only the general public but also the scientific community. The fear and importance of the new technology, as well as commercial interests, have supported many of the ongoing discussions. The recent i...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Batista R,Oliveira MM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective management of emerging insect-borne disease is dependent on the use of safe and efficacious chemical insecticides. Given the inherent ability of insects to develop resistance, it is essential to propose innovative strategies because insecticides remain the most important element of integrated approaches ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Lapied B,Pennetier C,Apaire-Marchais V,Licznar P,Corbel V

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice is the staple diet of more than three billion people. Yields must double over the next 40 years if we are to sustain the nutritional needs of the ever-expanding global population. Between 10% and 30% of the annual rice harvest is lost due to infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Evaluation of gen...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Skamnioti P,Gurr SJ

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：:The unicellular alga Dunaliella salina is the most interesting cell factory for the commercial production of beta-carotene because this species accumulates carotenoids to high concentrations. Nevertheless, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of carotenoid accumulation. Here, we review the regulatory mechan...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Lamers PP,Janssen M,De Vos RC,Bino RJ,Wijffels RH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics embraces several strategies that aim to quantify cell metabolites in order to increase our understanding of how metabolite levels and interactions influence phenotypes. Metabolic footprinting represents a niche within metabolomics, because it focuses on the analysis of extracellular metabolites. Although ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mapelli V,Olsson L,Nielsen J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent publication has reported the fabrication of a new microbial culture device containing an array of unprecedented density - a million growth chambers. This micro-Petri chip should impact on various fields, including biotechnology, ecology, food microbiology and drug development, by enabling high-throughput scre...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Gefen O,Balaban NQ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterned regular sieves and filters with comparable molecular dimensions hold great promise as an alternative to conventional polymeric gels and fibrous membranes to improve biomolecule separation. Recent developments of microfabricated nanofluidic sieves and filters have demonstrated superior performance for both an...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Fu J,Mao P,Han J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are one of the most diverse classes of natural compounds. Plant carotenoids are composed of a C40 isoprenoid skeleton with or without epoxy, hydroxy and keto groups. They have fundamental roles in human nutrition as antioxidants and vitamin A precursors and their consumption is increasingly associated with...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Giuliano G,Tavazza R,Diretto G,Beyer P,Taylor MA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the current status of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for wastewater treatment is reviewed. Fundamental facets of the MBR process and membrane and process configurations are outlined and the advantages and disadvantages over conventional suspended growth-based biotreatment are briefly identified....

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Judd S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of ecological 'traps' is based in theory from ecology and conservation biology that has now found application to infectious diseases with a study from Paul Turner's group. This study is important because it offers a mathematical model of ecological traps, applies this model to viruses, and tests the model ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Long CD,Turner-Shelef K,Relman DA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technology is a social practice that embodies the capacity of societies to transform themselves by creating and manipulating not only physical objects, but also symbols and cultural forms. It is an illusion that scientific and socioeconomic drivers are the sole elements determining the destiny of a technology. Althoug...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Mordini E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hand-held gene gun provides a rapid and efficient method of incorporating fluorescent dyes into cells, a technique that is becoming known as diolistics. Transporting fluorescent dyes into cells has, in the past, used predominantly injection or chemical methods. The use of the gene gun, combined with the new genera...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： O'Brien JA,Lummis SC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid prototyping (RP) technologies are a set of manufacturing processes that can produce very complex structures directly from computer-aided design models without structure-specific tools or knowledge. These technologies might eventually enable the manufacture of human livers to create functional substitutes for tre...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yan Y,Zhang R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide, which explains why biological therapies for cancer are forecast to make up 35% of total recombinant pharmaceuticals by 2010. Because of the high demand for cancer drugs, the need to lower production costs and the constraints of present production technologies for...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Pujol M,Gavilondo J,Ayala M,Rodríguez M,González EM,Pérez L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic and commercial success of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) has inspired innovative approaches aimed at increasing their potency and broadening their applicability. Among these, cocktails of recombinant human mAbs are a logical next step because they combine the technological advances made in the field of a...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Logtenberg T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on the state-of-the-art technologies that sequence DNA using miniaturized devices. The article considers the miniaturization of existing technologies for sequencing DNA and the opportunities for cost reduction that 'on-chip' devices can deliver. The ability to construct nano-scale structures and p...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Ryan D,Rahimi M,Lund J,Mehta R,Parviz BA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts through somatic cell nuclear transfer to expand wild populations that have shrunk to critical numbers is a logical extension of the successful cloning of mammals. However, although the first mammal was cloned 10 years ago, nuclear reprogramming remains phenomenological, with abnormal gene expression and epige...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Loi P,Galli C,Ptak G

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research infrastructures are essential for top-level academic and industrial research activities. Throughout the successive framework programmes (FPs) of the EU, actions have been gradually developed to support researchers in accessing top-level European research infrastructures located outside their own country and a...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Péro H,Faure JE

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Infrared spectroscopy and microscopy have heralded a period of rapid advances in tissue and cellular characterization during the past decade. However, vibrational spectroscopy is still an analytical tool that is neither familiar nor understood in the medical environment. For many years this field has been mainly drive...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Dumas P,Sockalingum GD,Sulé-Suso J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease resulting from the destruction of pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells that most frequently occurs in genetically predisposed children. Recent observations illustrating the regenerative capability of the endocrine pancreas in addition to advances in stem cell and gene ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Pasquali L,Fan Y,Trucco M,Ringquist S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low production cost is a key factor driving the development of plants and plant tissue cultures for the synthesis of therapeutic and other foreign proteins. Because product yield and concentration exert a major influence on process economics, improving foreign protein accumulation is crucial for enhancing the commerci...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Doran PM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, in light of ethical, political and commercial pressure, every effort should be made to replace animals with alternatives (e.g. in vitro models), to reduce the number of animals used in experiments to a minimum and to refine current testing strategies in a way that ensures animals undergo minimum pain and di...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Kroeger M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel therapeutic strategies that promote wound healing seek to mimic the response of the body to wounding, to regenerate rather than repair injured tissues. Many synthetic or natural biomaterials have been developed for this purpose and are used to deliver wound therapeutics in a controlled manner that prevents unwan...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Andreadis ST,Geer DJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat is one of the major staple food crops grown worldwide; however, productivity in cereal crops has not kept pace with the world population growth. A significant increase in wheat production (>40% by 2020) is needed simply to keep up with the growing demand. This increase is unlikely to be achieved by conventional ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Bhalla PL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern biocatalysis is developing new and precise tools to improve a wide range of production processes, which reduce energy and raw material consumption and generate less waste and toxic side-products. Biocatalysis is also achieving new advances in environmental fields, from enzymatic bioremediation to the synthesis ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Alcalde M,Ferrer M,Plou FJ,Ballesteros A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe the commercialization of food derived from genetically modified plants has been slow because of the complex regulatory process and the concerns of consumers. Risk assessment is focused on potential adverse effects on humans and the environment, which could result from unintended effects of genetic modificati...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Rischer H,Oksman-Caldentey KM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable progress in the development of cell culture techniques, including the development of the serum- and protein-free media that now routinely support hybridoma and mammalian cell growth, fetal bovine serum (FBS) supplemented media are still commonly used: a practice that raises ethical, scientific and...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Even MS,Sandusky CB,Barnard ND

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of public distrust regarding biotechnology, it has been suggested that the debate should be moved "upstream", whereby the public help to set research priorities. Although many scientists see this as an illogical reaction to a loss of faith in science, we argue that the boundaries between science and its te...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Davies KG,Wolf-Phillips J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis and heart disease are still the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The lack of suitable autologous grafts has produced a need for artificial grafts but the patency of such grafts is limited compared to natural materials. Tissue engineering, whereby living tissue replacements can be co...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Sales KM,Salacinski HJ,Alobaid N,Mikhail M,Balakrishnan V,Seifalian AM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Step by step, the components of an artificial form of cellular life are being assembled by researchers. Lipid vesicles the size of small bacteria can be prepared and under certain conditions are able to grow and divide, then grow again. Polymerase enzymes encapsulated in the vesicles can synthesize RNA from externally...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Deamer D

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Study of mutations that improve enzyme properties reveals that in many, but not all, cases closer mutations are more effective than distant ones. For enantioselectivity, substrate selectivity and new catalytic activity (catalytic promiscuity) closer mutations improved enzymes more effectively than distant ones. Howeve...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Morley KL,Kazlauskas RJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:A recent publication by Michael Longaker and colleagues represents a landmark for the use of adipose tissue as a source of cells for tissue regeneration. The authors investigated the ability of adipose tissue-derived cells (ADCs) to regenerate critical size calvarial (superior portion of the skull) defects in mice by ...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Strem BM,Hedrick MH

更新日期：2005-02-01 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 existence of a medicinal 'biotech revolution' has been widely accepted and promoted by academics, consultants, industry and government. This has generated expectations about significant improvements in the drug discovery process, healthcare and economic development that influence a considerable amount of policy-ma...

journal_title：Trends in biotechnology

authors： Nightingale P,Martin P

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00