technology: Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology – Redrawing the Drug Discovery Map

Synthetic Biology is a powerful new tool in scientists’ hands due to the recent advances in bioinformatics, DNA sequencing, and synthetic genomics. It covers a wide range of molecular activities involving the engineering of biological systems, manipulates chemicals, produces energy, maintains cell environment, and enhances human health. Synthetic biology thus aims to design and build …

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Synthetic Biology in Cancer Treatment

Humans have always suffered from terrible diseases. It was not until the rise of enlightened thought throughout the 19th century that mankind began to effectively combat illness. Since then, advances in biological and medical sciences have defeated virtually incurable and formerly fatal diseases. However, despite our successes, there is a group of age-related cellular pathologies …

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Application of Synthetic Biology in Personalized Medicine

Thinking about the future is always inspiring. The reason is simple: the history of past events cannot be changed, as they are written; the future, on the other hand, is neither constrained nor delimited by our understanding. Hence, many imaginative thinkers of past centuries dreamed of “impossible things” such as flying cars or holograms. Interestingly …

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Potential of Prime Editing over CRISPR in Healthcare

Everyone up to date on biotechnological advances has heard of the CRISPR system for editing genomes. But it is also true that there is a lot of fuss about this technology, and not for nothing. The original function of this bacterial system is one of the most ingenious ways for simple organisms to acquire immunity …

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Synthetic Biology and AI to Remove Food Allergy

Allergies are increasingly common pathologies in human society. In the past, it was believed that they were due to an exaggerated reaction of the immune system to a specific antigen or a hypersensitive reaction. Today we know that it is actually the harmlessness of the external agent that leads to pathogenesis, paradoxically. In fact, there …

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Electrical Energy Storage using Synthetic Biology – Is there Potential?

With the rise of renewable energy, the world faces a new problem to solve. During the years of the fossil fuel monopoly, energy storage was not a problem, since nature itself was responsible for providing these deposits. In contrast, the strategy to be followed with most renewable energies is different: the aim is to capture …

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