Engineering living materials by synthetic biology

Jiren Luo; Jiangfeng Chen; Yaoge Huang; Lingchong You; Zhuojun Dai

doi:10.1063/5.0115645

Engineering living materials by synthetic biology

Biophys Rev (Melville). 2023 Feb 1;4(1):011305. doi: 10.1063/5.0115645. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Jiren Luo¹, Jiangfeng Chen¹, Yaoge Huang¹, Lingchong You², Zhuojun Dai¹

Affiliations

¹ Materials Synthetic Biology Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA.

Abstract

Natural biological materials are programmed by genetic information and able to self-organize, respond to environmental stimulus, and couple with inorganic matter. Inspired by the natural system and to mimic their complex and delicate fabrication process and functions, the field of engineered living materials emerges at the interface of synthetic biology and materials science. Here, we review the recent efforts and discuss the challenges and future opportunities.

Publication types

Review