Biology by design: Reduction and synthesis of cellular components and behaviour

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 607-623

  Marguet, Philippe ^a   Balagadde, Frederick ^b   Tan, Cheemeng ^c   You, Lingchong ^a,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d CIEMAS 2345 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biological design; Computational biology; Gene circuits; Genetic engineering; Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ERYTHROPOIETIN; INSULIN;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENOMICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION;

EID: 34547615203     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0206     Document Type: Review

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