Constructing vesicle-based artificial cells with embedded living cells as organelle-like modules

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Elani, Yuval ^a   Trantidou, Tatiana ^a   Wylie, Douglas ^a   Dekker, Linda ^a   Polizzi, Karen ^a   Law, Robert V ^a   Ces, Oscar ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOREACTOR; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVICES; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; BIOREACTORS; LIPID BILAYERS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLES;

EID: 85044213239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22263-3     Document Type: Article

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