Sentences with phrase «bacterial cells engineered»
Lu provided the team with bacterial cells engineered to light up in response to a variety of chemical stimuli.
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Thirty years ago he engineered a bacterial strain to produce an HIV enzyme so he could study how it enables HIV to infect human cells.
A company called Hematech is already breeding genetically engineered cattle (derived from cloned stem cells) that produce human antibodies to fight bacterial infections, and the animals» welfare is not compromised in any way.
«Engineers design «living materials»: Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light.»
Super productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells, such as common E. coli, to produce valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way.
Using this switch, the researchers were able to generate about 0.8 grams of glucaric acid per liter of the bacterial mixture, while cells that were engineered to produce glucaric acid but did not have the metabolic switch produced hardly any.
«How nature engineered the original rotary motor: Study finds tether protein that measures bacterial flagella, holds cells together.»
To do that, you need to design DNA sequences and insert them into the bacterial cells of your choice, a technique pioneered by the first generation of genetic engineers.
The work was performed in collaboration with Arjan Narbad's lab at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK, who tested how engineering mutations in the endolysins affected their ability to tear down the bacterial cell wall.
The awards span the broad mission of the NIH and include groundbreaking research, such as engineering immune cells producing drugs at the site of diseased tissue; developing a sensor to rapidly detect antibiotic resistance of a bacterial infection; understanding how certain parasites evade host detection by continually changing their surface proteins; and developing implants that run off the electricity generated from the motion of a beating the heart.
Her dissertation research focused on designing bacterial cellulose scaffolds for tissue engineering of stem cells.
A bacterial virus called M13 was genetically engineered to control the arrangement of carbon nanotubes, improving solar - cell efficiency by nearly one - third.
The TraDISort approach has a broad range of future applications, in drug development, metabolic engineering and in studies of basic bacterial cell physiology.