ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2014
Co-culture systems and technologies: taking synthetic biology to the next level.
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247 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Anatomical design and production of a novel three-dimensional co-culture system replicating the human flexor digitorum profundus enthesis.Journal of anatomy · 2026Article
- Advances and applications of organ-on-a-chip technology.Cell reports methods · 2026Review
- Use of in vitro co-culture models to inform bacterial engineering for the treatment of solid tumours.npj biomedical innovations · 2026Review
- Microbial stewardship for sustainable dye remediation with a special emphasis on consortia engineering, computational techniques, and microbial bioprospecting.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- 3D organotypic skin models recapitulate autoantibody-driven pemphigus pathomechanisms and targeted therapeutic response.Science advances · 2026Article
- Exploring the interplay between protein conformational changes and phosphorylation in a pancreatic cancer cell and stellate cell coculture system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Induction of Mesenchymal Stem Cell and Preosteoblast Differentiation: A Comparative Study Between Conditioned Medium and In Vitro Coculture.International journal of dentistry · 2026Article
- Alternatives to animal models in gastroenterology and hepatology research.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- A pumpless liver-adipose model for studying metabolic dysfunction and drug responses.PloS one · 2026Article
- Advancing In Vitro Microfluidic Models for Pressure-Induced Retinal Ganglion Cell Degeneration: Current Insights and Future Directions from a Biomechanical Perspective.Micromachines · 2025Article
- Mathematical Modeling ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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- A synthetic microbial community derived from healthy apple rhizosphere alleviates apple replant disease.Horticulture research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Co-culture techniques find myriad applications in biology for studying natural or synthetic interactions between cell populations. Such techniques are of great importance in synthetic biology, as multi-species cell consortia and other natural or synthetic ecology systems are widely seen to hold enormous potential for foundational research as well as novel industrial, medical and environmental applications with many proof-of-principle studies in recent years. What is needed for co-cultures to fulfil their potential? Cell-cell interactions in co-cultures are strongly influenced by the extracellular environment, which is determined by the experimental set-up, which therefore needs to be given careful consideration. An overview of existing experimental and theoretical co-culture set-ups in synthetic biology and adjacent fields is given here, and challenges and opportunities involved in such experiments are discussed. Greater focus on foundational technology developments for co-cultures is needed for many synthetic biology systems to realize their potential in both applications and answering biological questions.
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