CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m.
...through programming cells.
In the context of therapeutics, if you want to program a cell to identify and ...translational activity a cell has and control how much it taxes the resources of a cell. The objective is to... to the regulatory networks within E. coli host cells.
Image from Nielson and Voigt (2014).
...and target a malignant cell, then you’d need the ability to turn on genes at different times. It requires...being used. One thing is that Cas9 is toxic. When cells carry CRISPR circuitry, it can slow their growth...chemicals as sophisticated as those that living cells and animals make. That will be an outcome of genetic...within the wood. There are different types of cellulose fibers, pattern, shape. All of that is controlled...