APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Phage engineering Cataloging and Control of phages Diagnosis and Antibiotic Discovery ADVANTAGES: No interference of the phage infection cycle No compromise of the host bacteria life cycle Enables easy amplification of the DNA “barcode” for identification, tracking and control of individual phages Standardizes the workflow … [Read more...] about Novel Methods for the Barcoding of Bacteriophages 2019-113
Biotechnology and Medicine
Gut Microbiome Engineering for the Heterologous Production of Antiviral Compounds 2019-085
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Medical: Pharmaceuticals ADVANTAGES: Present strain is among the most robust constituents of the gut microbiome Obviates the need for exogenous iron-sulfur cluster producing genetic elements ABSTRACT: In 2018, Gizzi et al. demonstrated that the human gene Viperin can produce antiviral small molecules (ddhCTP) that act as a chain … [Read more...] about Gut Microbiome Engineering for the Heterologous Production of Antiviral Compounds 2019-085
ART: A machine learning Automated Recommendation Tool for guiding synthetic biology 2020-011
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Companies performing synthetic biology/metabolic engineering ADVANTAGES: Unique uncertainty quantification approach High predictive accuracy Shorter development times ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Joint BioEnergy Institute and the Agile BioFoundry have developed a tool that uses machine learning to make further … [Read more...] about ART: A machine learning Automated Recommendation Tool for guiding synthetic biology 2020-011
Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
APPLICATIONS: Food products Cosmetics Water and wastewater treatment Pharmaceuticals ABSTRACT: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Deepti Tanjore and researchers at HelioBioSys have developed a method of producing a polysaccharide gel comprising: (a) culturing or growing a cyanobacterium or a mixture of cyanobacteria species in a … [Read more...] about Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) 2017-063
APPLICATIONS: Genomics research ABSTRACT: A team of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers including Trent northern, Benjamin Bowen, Oliver Reubel, and Markus De Raad have developed technologies for associating metabolites with genes that enable scoring and curating compound identities based on their biological relevance, and/or using compound identities … [Read more...] about Metabolite, Annotation and Gene Integration System (MAGI) 2017-063
