title: Synthetic biology looks good on paper.
abstract: Tremendous progress has been made in the design and implementation of synthetic gene circuits, but real-world applications of such circuits have been limited. Cell-free circuits embedded on paper developed by Pardee et al. promise to deliver specific and rapid diagnostics on a low-cost, highly scalable platform.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Allison J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lopatkin
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: you@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Lingchong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: You
mesh_terms: D002474:Cell-Free System; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D066298:In Vitro Techniques