{"id":7621,"date":"2024-11-12T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:07:54","slug":"new-book-on-synthetic-biology-for-cancer-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"New Book on Synthetic Biology for <strong>Therapeutics<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center\u2019s (UNAM) Dr. Urartu \u00d6zg\u00fcr Safak \u015eeker and his graduate students Recep Erdem Ahan, Do\u011fu\u015f Akbo\u011fa, Derin Akman, Damla Albayrak, Ece Avc\u0131, Mehmet Emin Bakar, Asl\u0131 Do\u011fruer, Ahmet H\u0131n\u00e7er, Melis Karaca, Fayit Purkat, Asl\u0131 Semerci, Gozeel Binte Shahid,\u00a0Senem \u015een, Nazl\u0131can Tun\u00e7, and Merve Yavuz have published a new book entitled \u201cSynthetic Biology for Therapeutics: Engineering Cells for Living Drugs.\u201d The book focuses on how synthetic biology can be applied to the development of new cancer therapies, particularly through the use of engineered genetic circuits within cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. \u015eeker\u2019s work explores the potential of cellular therapies, including microbial therapies and CAR-T cell therapies, as alternatives to traditional cancer treatments. It covers the engineering of mammalian and microbial cells to deliver targeted therapies as well as the development of biological devices for precise cellular targeting.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is intended for scientists and researchers in biotechnology, medicine and synthetic biology, providing insights into how the genetic engineering of cells can be used to create living drugs for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center\u2019s (UNAM) Dr. Urartu \u00d6zg\u00fcr Safak \u015eeker and his graduate students Recep Erdem Ahan, Do\u011fu\u015f Akbo\u011fa, Derin Akman, Damla Albayrak, Ece Avc\u0131, Mehmet Emin Bakar, Asl\u0131 Do\u011fruer, Ahmet H\u0131n\u00e7er, Melis Karaca, Fayit Purkat, Asl\u0131 Semerci, Gozeel Binte Shahid,\u00a0Senem \u015een, Nazl\u0131can Tun\u00e7, and Merve Yavuz have<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=7621\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,12,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7716,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}