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Delivery of local anaesthetics by a self-assembled supramolecular system mimicking their interactions with a sodium channel
We designed nanofibers that incorporate the tetrodotoxin binding peptide sequences from the voltage-gated sodium channel. These nanofibers allowed the specific binding and release of tetrodotoxin to achieve prolonged nerve blockade.
First steps in a long journey: Understanding the potential clinical consequences of immune responses to the Cas9 protein
Recent demonstration of immune responses to Cas proteins identify a critical risk in the eventual clinical application of Cas-mediated gene editing. In the accompanying paper we extend these findings by identifying promiscuous T-cell epitopes on Cas9 derived from Staphylococcus aureus.
Accelerating Synthetic Biotic Development with Gut-on-a-chip Technology
M. Tyler Nelson & Mark R. Charbonneau--This article provides additional details on a successful collaboration between the 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory and Synlogic Inc., to develop human gut-on-a-chip models for screening high potential synbiotics.
