Programming bacteria to have therapeutic functions will require a toolbox of cellular sensors that respond to microenvironments in the body, genetic circuits to integrate this information and the ...

Bringing together engineers, physicists and molecular biologists, the field of synthetic biology uses engineering principles ... a snapshot of the type and abundance of species in these microbial ...

Synthetic biology is reframing how we approach ... challenges in and at the intersection of chemistry and biology. The Prindle Lab develops enabling technologies to characterize microbial communities ...

This research was recently published in 'Nucleic Acids Research', an international molecular biology and biochemistry ... for efficient gene circuit integration. Synthetic RNA-based translation ...

Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern Engineering and director of Northwestern University's Center for Synthetic Biology, will lead the ... the fundamental rules that ...