Biotechnology Advances

1. 3D Printed Organs

Artificial limbs have been in use for centuries, and there has been steady improvement in the mobility and versatility of bionic limbs. Now new advances in bionic technology and 3D printing has taken it even further. It has made it possible to artificially construct internal organs like heart, kidney, and liver. Doctors have been able to successfully implant these into individuals that need

2. Hacking biology with a liquid biocomputer

"Raspberry PI" is here for biology, and it is a personal liquid biochemical factory. By diminishing biology, we can put sophisticated science into easy-to-use kits. To break a billion-year-old processor outside the cell-free cell, anyone is breaking up to build bio-molecules with this machinery, without real cells anywhere. This makes biology more user-friendly, because it eliminates the need for microbial culture, training and equipment. They have been in research laboratories for a while.

Creating a cell-free system for everyone "decellularized" do-it-yourself can bring a new era of biology.

3.Brain Signals to Audible Speech

Scientists are working on making an instrument that can translate brain signals into audio speech using sound synthesizer. It will act as an incredible tool to communicate with people suffering from illness or painful injuries. In addition, scientists have found that they can use these tools to isolate the source of their tour on epilepsy patients.

4.Discovering de novo peptide substrates for enzymes using machine learning

Using this optimal learning approach, we developed a method entitled Peptide Optimization with Optimal Learning (POOL) to identify short (8–20 residues) peptides as selective substrates for enzymes. To validate POOL, we used a post-translational modifying enzyme, the 4′-phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase)23. PPTases covalently modify carrier proteins (CPs) involved in various biosynthetic pathways at a conserved serine residue by the addition of phosphopantetheine derived from coenzyme A (CoA). Previous work on PPTases using phage display led to the discovery of the 11-residue peptide, YbbR, that can act as a surrogate for the full-length CP and be used as a short peptide tag for such applications as biochemical protein labeling and affinity purification

Biotechnology Advances