Microfluidics for Synthetic Biology
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 459
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Synthetic biology is one of the fastest growing fields in biology nowadays. Researchers in this field investigate bio-functional materials such as cells, DNA, RNA, proteins, etc., through synthesizing/modifying bio-functional materials. In addition, they apply those synthesized/modified bio-functional materials for novel technologies. Such bio-functional materials to be investigated are mostly smaller than micro-scale and soluble/dispersible liquids, therefore, microfluidics that manipulates liquids in micro-scale provides numerous advantages to perform highly controlled experiments in synthetic biology. For example, single cells encapsulated in micro-droplets can be used for the directed evolution of a target protein. In addition, cell-free protein expression systems with biomolecule-sensitive DNA embedded in a microfluidic device can be used as an easy-to-use biosensor.
The aim of this Special Issue is to cover microfluidic technologies that can be applied to synthetic biology. We invite full research papers, reviews and communications covering related topics included in the keywords below. We look forward to your submissions.
Dr. Taishi Tonooka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- synthetic biology
- cell analysis
- protein analysis
- microfluidics
- droplet
- lab-on-a-chip
- organ-on-a-chip
- microTAS
- directed evolution
- biosensor
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