A Genetic Toolbox for Creating Reversible Ca2+-Sensitive Materials

A genetic toolbox for creating reversible Ca2+-sensitive materials.

A major goal of polymer science is to develop "smart" materials that sense specific chemical signals in complex environments and respond with predictable changes in their mechanical properties. Here, we describe a genetic toolbox of natural and engineered protein modules that can be rationally combined in manifold ways to create reversible self-assembling materials that vary in their compositio...

Electromembrane Processes, a Toolbox for Advanced Separations

A pediatric diabetes toolbox for creating centres of reference.

INTRODUCTION ISPAD guidelines recommend age appropriate diabetes education concepts for young patients and their families as well as tools for nutritional management, psychosocial assessment, and psychological advice but their implementation in Europe is presently unknown. METHODS On the basis of a structured survey among the European SWEET members information on established tools and program...

Template-O-Matic: A toolbox for creating customized pediatric templates

Processing pediatric neuroimaging data is a challenge due to pervasive morphological changes that occur in the human brain during normal development. This is of special relevance when reference data is used as part of the processing approach, as in spatial normalization and tissue segmentation. Current approaches construct reference data (templates) by averaging brain images from a control grou...

A molecular genetic toolbox for Yarrowia lipolytica

BACKGROUND Yarrowia lipolytica is an ascomycete yeast used in biotechnological research for its abilities to secrete high concentrations of proteins and accumulate lipids. Genetic tools have been made in a variety of backgrounds with varying similarity to a comprehensively sequenced strain. RESULTS We have developed a set of genetic and molecular tools in order to expand capabilities of Y. li...