Algal Synthetic Biology

CD Biosynsis offers customized solutions for algal synthetic biology to help researchers around the world facilitate their cutting-edge research and overcome the challenges. We provide advanced techniques and powerful tools to help our customers solve any problems encountered in their projects and bring breakthrough ideas to fruition.

Introduction to Algal Synthetic Biology

Algae are a diverse group of eukaryotic organisms that can range from microalgae to macroalgae. For decades, their genetic, physiological, and metabolic diversity has been used to study fundamental biological processes such as photosynthesis and eukaryotic evolution. Since algae, like bacteria and yeast, can be grown on a large scale in controlled and contained environments, algae are suitable platforms for industrial biotechnology. However, the ability to perform genetic manipulation of algae is still limited. The advent of synthetic biology has the potential to revolutionize this field.

Synthetic Biology combines engineering principles with a variety of disciplines, including molecular biology, biotechnology, evolutionary biology, systems biology, and biophysics, to redesign existing biological systems or create artificial life. It focuses on the design and construction of biological devices with useful functions, which is also of great practical value for algae engineering. In recent years, synthetic biology approaches have been increasingly used to modify algae to provide sustainable biotechnological solutions. Eukaryotic microalgae and cyanobacteria have become two major research domains in algal synthetic biology because of their increasing importance as hosts for synthetic biology. The combination of genome editing, transgene expression, and microfluidics approaches will provide the means to establish algal synthetic biology and will pave the way for the commercial exploitation of algae as well as a deeper understanding of fundamental biological processes.

Figure 1. Building algal synthetic biology. (Scaife M A & Smith A G., 2016)

Applications

Our Solutions

CD Biosynsis offers integrated solutions for specific purposes and a wide range of applications to help customers overcome the challenges of their algal synthetic biology projects.

CD Biosynsis is committed to developing services and products that cover a wide range of steps in the synthetic biology workflow. We are confident in the validity and reproducibility of the results we deliver because all of our services and products are based on reliable technologies and optimized protocols to meet high standards.

To start your synthetic biology projects, please feel free to contact us for more details. Our experienced scientific team of biologists, bioinformatics, and chemists are available for on-demand customer assistance to help you with any concerns you may have.

References

1. Scaife M A & Smith A G. Towards developing algal synthetic biology. Biochemical Society Transactions, 2016, 44(3): 716-722.
2. Wang B, et al. Application of synthetic biology in cyanobacteria and algae. Frontiers in microbiology, 2012, 3: 344.

Please note that all services are for research use only. Not intended for any clinical use.