William E. Bentley

TL;DR: The traditional motivation for integrating biological components into microfabricated devices has been to create biosensors that meld the molecular recognition capabilities of biology with the signal processing capabilities of electronic devices, but a different motivation is emerging; biological components are being explored to radically change how fabrication is achieved at the micro- and nanoscales.

TL;DR: Results indicate AI-2 induces biofilm formation in E. coli through B3022, which then regulates QseBC and motility; hence, b3022 has been renamed the motility quorum-sensing regulator gene (the mqsR gene).

TL;DR: Plasmid content results indicate that the plasmid copy number monotonically increases with decreasing growth rate, and the reduction in growth rate brought about by the expression of chloramphenicol‐acetyl‐transferase (CAT) and β‐lactamase is experimentally quantified.

TL;DR: In this article, the amine-rich polysaccharide chitosan was observed to be positively charged and water soluble under mildly acidic conditions and is uncharged and insoluble under basic conditions.

TL;DR: A modified version of the synthetic genetic system, including a gene encoding an anti-biofilm enzyme, is generated and the engineered probiotic shows in vivo prophylactic and therapeutic activity against P. aeruginosa during gut infection in two animal models (Caenorhabditis elegans and mice).