Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in ...

Delivering genes. While gene therapy holds promise for treating a variety of diseases, including hemophilia and sickle cell anemia, only a handful of treatments have been approved so far, for an ...

Synthetic circuit allows dialing gene expression up or down in human cells Date: February 12, 2013 Source: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center ...

Scientists who built a synthetic gene circuit that allowed for the precise tuning of a gene's expression in yeast have now refined this new research tool to work in human cells, according to ...

Home News Engineered Circuit for Gene Expression Could Be Great Equalizer. An artist’s representation of a mammalian cell expressing acoustic reporter genes.

The team of scientists report a gene circuit that consists entirely of human genes and proteins and is activated by menthol to control the synthesis of a desired protein (Nat. Med. 2019, DOI: 10. ...

Scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits that program the functionality, performance, and behavior of living cells. These gene circuits hold great promise in medical and ...

A Boston University biomedical engineer, Collins reprograms organisms to endow them with novel or improved functions. Nature Outlook asks him how things are evolving.

The Equalizer is a synthetic circuit that assures consistent gene expression from cell to cell in laboratory-bred colonies. Credit: Illustration by Jin Yang. The Equalizer: An engineered circuit for ...

Scientists who built a synthetic gene circuit that allowed for the precise tuning of a gene's expression in yeast have now refined this new research tool to work in human cells, according to ...