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  1. The interaction of stem cells with their culture substrates is critical in controlling their fate and function. Declining stemness of adult-derived human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) during in vitro expansion o...

    Authors: Lucas H. Hofmeister, Lino Costa, Daniel A. Balikov, Spencer W. Crowder, Alexander Terekhov, Hak-Joon Sung and William H. Hofmeister
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:18
  2. There is a general assent on the key role of standards in Synthetic Biology. In two consecutive letters to this journal, suggestions on the assembly methods for the Registry of standard biological parts have b...

    Authors: Cristina Vilanova, Kristie Tanner, Pedro Dorado-Morales, Paula Villaescusa, Divya Chugani, Alba Frías, Ernesto Segredo, Xavier Molero, Marco Fritschi, Lucas Morales, Daniel Ramón, Carlos Peña, Juli Peretó and Manuel Porcar
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:17
  3. Molecular cloning is an essential step in biological engineering. Methods involving megaprimer-based PCR of a whole plasmid are promising alternatives to the traditional restriction-ligation-based molecular cl...

    Authors: Pawel Jajesniak and Tuck Seng Wong
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:15
  4. Directing cell behaviour using controllable, on-demand non-biochemical methods, such as electrical stimulation is an attractive area of research. While there exists much potential in exploring different modes ...

    Authors: Gordon Minru Xiong, Anh Tuan Do, Jun Kit Wang, Chee Leong Yeoh, Kiat Seng Yeo and Cleo Choong
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:14
  5. Extensive native Jatropha curcas L. (Jatropha) crop areas have been planted in Central America marginal lands since 2008 as a non-edible prospective feedstock alternative to high-value, edible palm oil. Jatropha ...

    Authors: Francisco Bueso, Luis Moreno, Mathew Cedeño and Karla Manzanarez
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:12
  6. Chromosome engineering encompasses a collection of homologous recombination-based techniques that are employed to modify the genome of a model organism in a controlled fashion. Such techniques are widely used ...

    Authors: Sriram Tiruvadi Krishnan, M. Charl Moolman, Theo van Laar, Anne S. Meyer and Nynke H. Dekker
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:11
  7. The Registry of Standard Biological Parts imposes sequence constraints to enable DNA assembly using restriction enzymes. Alnahhas et al. (Journal of Biological Engineering 2014, 8:28) recently argued that thes...

    Authors: Afnan Azizi, Wilson Lam, Hilary Phenix, Lioudmila Tepliakova, Ian J Roney, Daniel Jedrysiak, Alex Power, Vaibhav Gupta, Nada Elnour, Martin Hanzel, Alexandra C Tzahristos, Shihab Sarwar and Mads Kærn
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:8

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Biological Engineering 2016 10:1

  8. We have developed a mixture of enzymes and chemicals that completely lyse cyanobacteria. Since the treatment involves only readily-available chemicals and simple proteins that degrade the components of the cya...

    Authors: Kunal K. Mehta, Niklaus H. Evitt and James R. Swartz
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:10
  9. Conventional experiments in small scale are often performed in a ‘Black Box’ fashion, analyzing only the product concentration in the final sample. Online monitoring of relevant process characteristics and par...

    Authors: S. J. Wewetzer, M. Kunze, T. Ladner, B. Luchterhand, S. Roth, N. Rahmen, R. Kloß, A. Costa e Silva, L. Regestein and J. Büchs
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:9
  10. 3D Printing promises to produce complex biomedical devices according to computer design using patient-specific anatomical data. Since its initial use as pre-surgical visualization models and tooling molds, 3D ...

    Authors: Helena N Chia and Benjamin M Wu
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:4
  11. Unlike bone tissue, articular cartilage regeneration has not been very successful and has many challenges ahead. We have previously developed injectable hydrogels using photopolymerizable chitosan (MeGC) that ...

    Authors: Jinku Kim, Brian Lin, Soyon Kim, Bogyu Choi, Denis Evseenko and Min Lee
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2015 9:1
  12. Cotton is an important domesticated fiber used to manufacture a variety of products and industrial goods. During harvesting with cotton strippers and cotton pickers, it is contaminated with foreign matter from...

    Authors: Adnan Mustafic, Changying Li and Mark Haidekker
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:29
  13. The Registry of Standard Biological Parts only accepts genetic parts compatible with the RFC 10 BioBrick format. This combined assembly and submission standard requires that four unique restriction enzyme site...

    Authors: Razan N Alnahhas, Ben Slater, Yunle Huang, Catherine Mortensen, Jordan W Monk, Yousef Okasheh, Marco D Howard, Neil R Gottel, Michael J Hammerling and Jeffrey E Barrick
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:28
  14. In mammalian development, the formation of most tissues is achieved by a relatively small repertoire of basic morphogenetic events (e.g. cell adhesion, locomotion, apoptosis, etc.), permutated in various seque...

    Authors: Elise Cachat, Weijia Liu, Peter Hohenstein and Jamie A Davies
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:26
  15. Genetic material extracted from in situ microbial communities has high promise as an indicator of biological system status. However, the challenge is to access genomic information from all organisms at the popula...

    Authors: Ju Seok Lee, Junghuei Chen, Russell Deaton and Jin-Woo Kim
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:25
  16. Precise spatial control and patterning of cells is an important area of research with numerous applications in tissue engineering, as well as advancing an understanding of fundamental cellular processes. Poly ...

    Authors: Mahmoud E Moustafa, Venkat S Gadepalli, Ahmed A Elmak, Woomin Lee, Raj R Rao and Vamsi K Yadavalli
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:24
  17. Bioprocesses depend on a number of different operating parameters and temperature is one of the most important ones. Unfortunately, systems for rapid determination of temperature dependent reaction kinetics ar...

    Authors: Martin Kunze, Clemens Lattermann, Sylvia Diederichs, Wolfgang Kroutil and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:22
  18. In prior work, a phage engineered with a biofilm-degrading enzyme (dispersin B) cleared artificial, short-term biofilms more fully than the phage lacking the enzyme. An unresolved question is whether the trans...

    Authors: Matthew Schmerer, Ian J Molineux, Dilara Ally, Jabus Tyerman, Nicole Cecchini and James J Bull
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:21
  19. First described in 2004, endometrial stem cells (EnSCs) are adult stem cells isolated from the endometrial tissue. EnSCs comprise of a population of epithelial stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and side popu...

    Authors: Javad Verdi, Aaron Tan, Alireza Shoae-Hassani and Alexander M Seifalian
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:20
  20. Metal contamination is widespread and results from natural geogenic and constantly increasing anthropogenic sources (mainly mining and extraction activities, electroplating, battery and steel manufacturing or ...

    Authors: Alexandre Duprey, Viviane Chansavang, Franck Frémion, Clémence Gonthier, Yoann Louis, Philippe Lejeune, Fanny Springer, Valérie Desjardin, Agnès Rodrigue and Corinne Dorel
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:19
  21. Biotechnological screening processes are performed since more than 8 decades in small scale shaken bioreactors like shake flasks or microtiter plates. One of the major issues of such reactors is the sufficient...

    Authors: Clemens Lattermann, Matthias Funke, Sven Hansen, Sylvia Diederichs and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:18
  22. Turbulence intensity, or hydromechanical stress, is a parameter that influences a broad range of processes in the fields of chemical engineering and biotechnology. Fermentation processes are often characterize...

    Authors: Andreas Daub, Marina Böhm, Stefanie Delueg, Markus Mühlmann, Gerhard Schneider and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:17
  23. We discuss fluorescence as a method to detect polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other organic molecules, as well as minerals on the surface of Mars. We present an instrument design that is adapted from the ...

    Authors: Heather D Smith, Christopher P McKay, Andrew G Duncan, Ronald C Sims, Anne J Anderson and Paul R Grossl
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:16
  24. In antibody purification processes, the acidic buffer commonly used to elute the bound antibodies during conventional affinity chromatograph, can damage the antibody. Herein we describe the development of seve...

    Authors: Masayuki Tsukamoto, Hideki Watanabe, Ayako Ooishi and Shinya Honda
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:15
  25. The development of novel biomaterials able to control cell activities and direct their fate is warranted for engineering functional bone tissues. Adding bioactive materials can improve new bone formation and b...

    Authors: Ioana-Carmen Brie, Olga Soritau, Noemi Dirzu, Cristian Berce, Adriana Vulpoi, Catalin Popa, Milica Todea, Simion Simon, Maria Perde-Schrepler, Piroska Virag, Otilia Barbos, Gabriela Chereches, Petru Berce and Valentin Cernea
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:14
  26. Understanding the fundamental mechanisms underlying the cellular response to topographical surface features will extend our knowledge regarding the regulation of cell functions. Analyzing the cellular response...

    Authors: Mee-Hae Kim, Yoshiko Sawada, Masahito Taya and Masahiro Kino-oka
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:13
  27. The computational methods provide condition for investigation related to the process of drug delivery, such as convection and diffusion of drug in extracellular matrices, drug extravasation from microvessels o...

    Authors: Mostafa Sefidgar, M Soltani, Kaamran Raahemifar, Hossein Bazmara, Seyed Mojtaba Mousavi Nayinian and Majid Bazargan
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:12
  28. Au/CuS core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) were designed as a new type of transducer agent for photothermal therapy (PTT), with attractive features of easy preparation, low cost and small size for targeting. This p...

    Authors: Ebenezer Addae, Xiuli Dong, Eric McCoy, Chang Yang, Wei Chen and Liju Yang
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:11
  29. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease affecting approximately 27 million Americans, and even more worldwide. OA is characterized by degeneration of subchondral bone and articular cartilage. In th...

    Authors: Timothy N Snyder, Krishna Madhavan, Miranda Intrator, Ryan C Dregalla and Daewon Park
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:10

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:27

  30. New advances enable long-term organotypic culture of colonic epithelial stem cells that develop into structures known as colonoids. Colonoids represent a primary tissue source acting as a potential starting ma...

    Authors: Asad A Ahmad, Yuli Wang, Adam D Gracz, Christopher E Sims, Scott T Magness and Nancy L Allbritton
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:9
  31. The induction of protein synthesis by exogenous delivery of coding synthetic mRNA in desired cells is an auspicious strategy in the fields of basic cell biology, regenerative medicine, treatment of diseases, a...

    Authors: Meltem Avci-Adali, Andreas Behring, Timea Keller, Stefanie Krajewski, Christian Schlensak and Hans Peter Wendel
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:8
  32. Due to their modular repeat structure, Pumilio/fem-3 mRNA binding factor (PUF) proteins are promising candidates for designer RNA-binding protein (RBP) engineering. To further facilitate the application of the...

    Authors: Zhanar Abil, Carl A Denard and Huimin Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:7
  33. Inducible promoters are widely spread genetic tools for triggering, tuning and optimizing the expression of recombinant genes in engineered biological systems. Most of them are controlled by the addition of a ...

    Authors: Nicolo’ Politi, Lorenzo Pasotti, Susanna Zucca, Michela Casanova, Giuseppina Micoli, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis and Paolo Magni
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:5
  34. Many of the gene regulatory networks used within the field of synthetic biology have extensively employed the AraC and LacI inducible transcription factors. However, there is no Escherichia coli strain that provi...

    Authors: Manjunatha Kogenaru and Sander J Tans
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:2
  35. Lignin derivatives are phenylpropanoid biopolymers derived from pulping and biorefinery processes. The possibility to utilize lignin derivatives from different types of processes in advanced enzyme-catalyzed o...

    Authors: Kristin Johansson, Thomas Gillgren, Sandra Winestrand, Lars Järnström and Leif J Jönsson
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2014 8:1
  36. Synthetic genomic approaches offer unique opportunities to use powerful yeast and Escherichia coli genetic systems to assemble and modify chromosome-sized molecules before returning the modified DNA to the target...

    Authors: Bogumil J Karas, Bhuvan Molparia, Jelena Jablanovic, Wolfgang J Hermann, Ying-Chi Lin, Christopher L Dupont, Christian Tagwerker, Isaac T Yonemoto, Vladimir N Noskov, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Andrew E Allen, John I Glass, Clyde A Hutchison III, Hamilton O Smith, J Craig Venter and Philip D Weyman
    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2013 7:30