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What Is Biofabrication? Growing Materials, Medicines, and Food
A narrative guide to biofabrication in synthetic biology, from lab-grown materials and medicines to food, tissue models, …
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Precision Fermentation Explained: Brewing More Than Beer
A plain-English synthetic biology guide to precision fermentation, microbial cell factories, food proteins, enzymes, …
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Can Bacteria Make Plastic, Fuel, and Medicine?
A grounded synthetic biology guide to engineered microbes, microbial factories, bioplastics, fuels, medicines, …
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Mammalian Cell Engineering: Synthetic Biology in Sensitive Cells
A careful guide to mammalian cell engineering in synthetic biology, explaining host context, protein processing, …
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Photosynthetic Synthetic Biology: Algae, Cyanobacteria, and Light-Driven Design
A careful guide to photosynthetic synthetic biology, explaining algae, cyanobacteria, light-driven production, chassis …
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Cofactor and Redox Balancing: The Hidden Accounting of Synthetic Biology
A practical narrative guide to cofactor and redox balancing in synthetic biology, explaining NADH, NADPH, ATP, pathway …
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Cell Banks and Seed Trains: Preserving Engineered Strains Before Production
A practical guide to cell banks and seed trains in synthetic biology, explaining preserved strains, seed cultures, …
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Techno-Economic and Life-Cycle Thinking for Synthetic Biology
A grounded guide to techno-economic analysis and life-cycle thinking in synthetic biology, explaining yield, titer, …
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Secretion and Export Pathways: Getting Bioproducts Out of Cells
A grounded guide to secretion and export pathways in synthetic biology, explaining why product location, membranes, …
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Glycoengineering: Designing the Sugar Layer of Biology
A grounded guide to glycoengineering in synthetic biology, explaining glycans, host choice, protein modification, cell …
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Gene Expression Tuning: Why More Is Not Always Better
A grounded guide to gene expression tuning in synthetic biology, explaining promoters, copy number, translation, burden, …
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Cellular Burden and Resource Allocation: The Cost of Programming Cells
A grounded guide to cellular burden in synthetic biology, explaining ribosomes, energy, carbon flow, stress, …
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Chassis Organisms: Choosing the Right Living Platform for Synthetic Biology
A grounded guide to chassis organism selection in synthetic biology, explaining how bacteria, yeast, fungi, algae, …
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Microbial Consortia: Designing Communities Instead of Lone Strains
A grounded guide to engineered microbial consortia and co-cultures in synthetic biology, explaining division of labor, …
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Genetic Stability in Synthetic Biology: Keeping Designs From Drifting
A grounded guide to genetic stability in synthetic biology, explaining plasmid loss, mutation, burden, population drift, …