Publications
2025
Olga Rook, Hub Zwart and Marileen Dogterom
Public attitudes to potential synthetic cells applications: Pragmatic support and ethical acceptance
27 February 2025, PLoS ONE, 20(2): e0319337
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319337
Alex Joesaar, Martin Holub, Leander Lutze, Marco Emanuele, Jacob Kerssemakers, Martin Pabst and Cees Dekker
A microfluidic platform for extraction and analysis of bacterial genomic DNA
23 February 2025, Lab on a chip
https://doi.org/10.1039/d4lc00839a
Roman Barth, Iain F. Davidson, Jaco van der Torre, Michael Taschner, Stephan Gruber, Jan-Michael Peters, Cees Dekker
SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions
06 February 2025, Cell, 188, 749-763
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.020
Nicola De Franceschi, Alberto Blanch-Jover and Cees Dekker
Interaction hierarchy among Cdv proteins drives recruitment to membrane necks
16 January 2025, eLife, 1-19
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104226.1.sa4
Holub, M.
Single-chromosome biophysics
8 January 2025, doctoral thesis, Delft University of Technology
https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:08912541-02f4-44af-b8a6-c3b7a3647f17
Vadim G. Bogatyr and Gijs J. L. Wuite
Challenges in observing transcription–translation for bottom-up synthetic biology
3 January 2025, QRB Discovery, 6: e5, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1017/qrd.2024.27
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