Better together: Engineering and application of microbial symbioses

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-49

  Hays, Stephanie G ^a   Patrick, William G ^b   Ziesack, Marika ^a   Oxman, Neri ^b   Silver, Pamela A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MICROORGANISMS;

DIVISION OF LABOR; ESSENTIAL FEATURES; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; METABOLIC CAPABILITIES; METHANOGENIC COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL SYSTEM; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOENERGY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFILM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLOROCHROMATIUM AGGREGATUM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENT CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FIBER STRUCTURE; GREEN CHEMISTRY; INKJET PRINTING; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MEMBRANE SEPARATION; METABOLIC CROSSFEEDING; MICROBIAL COMMUNICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLDING; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; ROBUSTNESS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL PATTERNING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOENGINEERING; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84940121964     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.08.008     Document Type: Review

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