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• Cell-Free Biomolecule Manufacturing
  Wyss Institute researchers have developed a biomolecular manufacturing method that can quickly and easily produce a wide range of vaccines, antimicrobial peptides and antibody conjugates while doing so anywhere, even in places without access to electrical power or refrigeration. The breakthrough could provide a life-saving workaround for making modern interventions available in remote areas. Today...

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  Don’t hate your guts – heal them
  February 10, 2020
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  Empowering mucosal healing with an engineered probiotic
  December 6, 2019
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  Trust your gut to be healed with probiotic hydrogels
  August 12, 2019

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  Self-regenerating bacterial hydrogels as intestinal wound patches
  This animation explains how self-regenerating bacterial hydrogels could be used as adhesive patches to help intestinal wounds heal. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

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  Living Materials
  Can we create a world of living materials that have the characteristics of biological systems: self-replication, self-regulation, self-healing, environmental responsiveness and self-sustainability? Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are defined as engineered materials composed of living cells that form or assemble the material itself or modulate the functional performance of the material in some manner. The proposed Big...

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  Light-driven fine chemical production in yeast biohybrids
  Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Neel Joshi explains the concept of yeast biohybrids and how they can be used to harvest energy from light to drive the production of fine chemicals. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  Biofilms: Reprogramming Bacteria to Improve Lives
  Wyss Core Faculty member Neel Joshi and Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Duraj-Thatte discuss the intersection between synthetic biology and materials science as an underexplored area with great potential to positively affect our daily lives—applications ranging from manufacturing to medicine. Dr. Joshi outlines ways that his lab at the Wyss Institute is looking at reprogramming bacteria in...

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  Disruptive: Putting Biofilms to Work
  Biofilms are commonly known as the slime-producing bacterial communities sitting on stones in streams, dirty pipes and drains, or dental plaque. However, Wyss Core Faculty member Neel Joshi is putting to work the very properties that make biofilms effective nuisances or threats in our daily lives. In this episode of Disruptive, Joshi and postdoctoral fellow...

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  BIND Biofilm
  In this video Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Neel Joshi and Postdoctoral Fellow Peter Nguyen describe how their protein engineering system called BIND (Biofilm-Integrated Nanofiber Display) could be used to redefine biofilms as large-scale production platforms for biomaterials that can be programmed to provide functions not possible with existing materials. An animation depicts how it...

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• Sep 11, 2017,
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  Theranostic Nanoparticles: Opportunities and Challenges
  Targeted imaging of disease-specific epitopes (molecular imaging) is an emerging tool that in combination with highly sensitive imaging modalities such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) will allow early detection of disease. Dr. Alt’s research combines the biotechnological generation of novel imaging agents and the use of highly innovative targeting approaches for the in vivo proof... Free and open to public
• Jun 15, 2017,
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  Be Strong, Tough, Adaptive and Self-healing: Life Lessons Applied to Soft Material Designs
  Many biopolymers not only have advanced mechanical properties such as high modulus, toughness, and elasticity, but more importantly, exhibit dynamic properties. Inspired by Nature, Dr. Zhibin Guan and his team have designed a series of biomimetic modular polymers with folded nano-domains as the repeat units. These new materials manifest an exciting combination of key mechanical,... Free and open to public