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Thermal therapeutics

The development of temperature-inducible molecular bioswitches allows on-demand activation of synthetic genetic circuits in microbes.

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  1. Piraner, D. et al. Tunable thermal bioswitches for in vivo control of microbial therapeutics. Nat. Chem. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2233 (2016).

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Pattison, R. Thermal therapeutics. Nat Methods 14, 13 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4139

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