Fussenegger Lab

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ERC Advanced Grant · 2017

Electrogenetics – Shaping Electrogenetic Interfaces for Closed-Loop Voltage-Controlled Gene Expression

Man and man-made electronic systems share the same ecosystem, and yet work radically differently. Human metabolism uses ion gradients across insulated membranes to simultaneously process slow analog chemical reactions and communicate information in multicellular systems via soluble/volatile molecular signals. By contrast, electronic systems use multicore central processing units to control the flow of electrons through insulated metal wires with gigahertz frequency and communicate information across networks via wired/wireless connections. With the advent of the internet of things, networks of interconnected electronic devices will reach the processing complexity of living systems, yet they…

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