Opportunities for microfluidic technologies in synthetic biology

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages

  Gulati, Shelly ^a   Rouilly, Vincent ^a   Niu, Xize ^a   Chappell, James ^a   Kitney, Richard I ^a   Edel, Joshua B ^a   Freemont, Paul S ^a   DeMello, Andrew J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineering principles; Microfluidic; Technologies

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; MICROFLUIDICS TECHNOLOGY; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM;

MICROFLUIDICS;

DNA; PROTEIN;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT FORMATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO COMPARTMENTALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 67650692734     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0083.focus     Document Type: Review

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