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Nature Materials 8, 370 - 372 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2434

Hydrogels: Gene jelly

Kersten S. Rabe1 & Christof M. Niemeyer1

  1. Kersten S. Rabe and Christof M. Niemeyer are at the Fakultät Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany.
    e-mail: christof.niemeyer@tu-dortmund.de


It's been possible for some time to create proteins synthetically, but cell-free gels that can produce proteins up to 300 times as efficiently as solution processes could provide new directions and greater complexity in synthetic biology.

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