Team:Peking/Project/3D/Future. Prospective of Bio-printing Bio-printing is not only a simple demonstration in our project, but it may also play an important part as an interface between physical environmental factors and organisms, as well as a vital inducer in highly organized biomaterial formation.
For the first time, our project demonstrated that bio-printing is feasible even in weak and incoherent light. Biofilms are an aggregation of cells in which they adhere together on a surface. Products - OPX Biotechnologies. Yeast to make malaria drug on demand. A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast.
The engineered yeast cells churn out high concentrations of a precursor that can be converted in a few steps into the first-line malaria drug. According to the team behind the advance, their semi-synthetic route should help smooth out seasonal variations in supply. Sparks of creation. Chemists are at the forefront of synthetic biology, the burgeoning field that could soon create artificial life.
Ananyo Bhattacharya reports In ShortSynthetic biology is an emerging discipline at the interface of engineering and biology The world's first synthetic organism could be made in the next few monthsSome fear that moves to patent work in the area could block research in the future Scientists and research funders are still grappling with the ethics of creating artificial life In the not too distant future, a researcher or pharmaceutical firm attempting to synthesise a particularly tricky compound may not turn to chemistry.
Instead, their first stop might be an online database of DNA building blocks where they can piece together a genetic program that, once slotted into bacteria or yeast, will churn out their product for them. Arizona_State.pdf.