Another and more generic perspective on addressing global health issues was offered by one of our participants who sought the construction of fundamental multi-purpose pathways in microbial cells, which may serve as platforms that can be tailored to many kinds of applications, using advanced tools for computer-aided design of genetic circuits (Carothers [2013]).
Inflammasomes are signalling platforms that sense a diverse range of microbial products and also a number of stress and damage associated endogenous signals.
The Growth Direct System (Rapid Micro Biosystems, Bedford MA) is an automated rapid microbial enumeration platform that integrates digital imaging, robotic handling, incubation, and software control.
Inflammasomes are high-molecular weight, caspase-1-activating platforms that control maturation and secretion of IL-1β, which are assembled upon activation of intracellular receptors by various microbial and host-derived danger signals.
Cyanobacteria are among the most promising microbial platforms for the construction of photosynthetic cell factories.
For this reason, E. coli and S. cerevisiae are often used microbial platforms in industrial biotechnology.
Development of microbial platforms for the production of pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals is an important area of research.
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"Artemisinin is a hydrocarbon, and we built a microbial platform to produce it," Keasling said.
