Bottom-up assembly of viral replication cycles.

Staufer, Oskar; Gantner, Gösta; Platzman, Ilia; Tanner, Klaus; Berger, Imre; Spatz, Joachim P · Nat Commun · 2022

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Abstract

Bottom-up synthetic biology provides new means to understand living matter by constructing minimal life-like systems. This principle can also be applied to study infectious diseases. Here we summarize approaches and ethical considerations for the bottom-up assembly of viral replication cycles.

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