Scientists are building cells from scratch 🧬⚗️ Synthetic cells can model life's most fundamental processes — and in the future, they could synthesise drugs, capture CO₂, or even act as biological computers. #IUPACTop2025
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#SyntheticCells #Chemistry #Innovation

Shoutout to Gabrielle Ong & Florian Deussen for rocking the German Conference on Synthetic Biology in Münster! 🔬
Gabrielle: poster on smart #ArtificialCells for tumor modulation.
Florian: #FlashTalk on aptamer-powered paracrine-like signaling in #SyntheticCells.
Proud of our team’s impact! #Research

I’m always happy to share my experience and discuss exciting scientific topics, especially #synbio and the construction of #syntheticcells 🧪🔬 Last week, I had lots of fun giving a lecture at the @tum.de Winter School for international students. Many thanks to the organisers for the kind invitation!

Novel genomically engineered antibiotic-free whole-cell biocatalysts for PET hydrolysis and waste remediation Plastic pollution is an escalating environmental challenge requiring stable and sustainable biotechnological solutions. Here, we report a major advanc…

Plastic as an “alien” carbon source!
Why plastic? It’s a chemically “alien” carbon source - far outside natural metabolism. That makes it the perfect testbed for synthetic cells with rewired genetic and metabolic logic.
#SyntheticCells #Xenobiology #MetabolicEngineering

The logos for our #microgravity experiments with lipid vesicles for the MAPHEUS16 campaign are out!

@univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@syncelleu.bsky.social

In collab with @dlr-de.bsky.social
#swedishspacecoorporation

#softmatter #spaceresearch #womeninSTEM #syntheticcells

#syntheticcells #softmatter #microgravity
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @syncelleu.bsky.social

There is still time to register for the EngBio Forum on Monday.
It's free to attend with a great speaker line up - Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems #EngineeringBiology

🎟️🫱 buytickets.at/engineeringb...

Growing functional artificial cytoskeletons in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA synthetic cells - Nature Chemical Engineering Engineering structurally and functionally complex synthetic cells remains a key challenge. Here DNA condensate synthetic cells combine phase separation and DNA nanostructures to reveal how switchable ...

Growing functional artificial cytoskeletons in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA synthetic cells (h/t @natchemeng.nature.com, @waltherlab.bsky.social) #syntheticcells

We’re counting down to the EngBio Forum on 10 Nov! Get ready to dive into #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems and #EngineeringBiology

🎤 With speakers Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social
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Join us at our EngBio Forum on 10 Nov to hear from Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social
on creating programmable materials and DNA-based synthetic cells that can process information, adapt,and communicate.
Don't miss it! Sign up 🫱 buytickets.at/engineeringb...

#SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems

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We're extremely excited to welcome Prof Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Dr Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social for our next Forum

We'll be exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems and #EngineeringBiology from the bottom-up

Don't miss it, register now! 👉 bit.ly/engbio-forum-nov25

💫Thrilled to see our work on the front cover of Small!
This work explores how #polymers empower #SyntheticCells with programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction and interactions with biological cells.

Huge thanks to Michela Vargiolu for the stunning artwork!

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social

From light to life-like protocells - Nature Synthesis Light-driven chemical reactivity enables a synthetic system to give rise to protocells with dynamic, life-like behaviour.

New paper! In my #Nature #Synthesis News & Views, I discuss how light-driven #chemistry enables dynamic life-like #protocells, highlighting the outstanding work of Lin and co-workers
#SyntheticBiology #SyntheticCells @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @natsynth.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!

✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com

#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter

Homeostatic artificial cells enable self-protection in prototissue spheroids Prototissues made from artificial cells (ACs) aim to replicate the behaviors of living tissues, such as communication, collective behavior, and homeos…

Homeostatic Artificial Cells Enable Self-Protection in Prototissue Spheroids - Fantastic and detailed work by Joshua on using chemo-structural feedback to reach self-regulation effects in #syntheticcells #systemschemistry
now online in Chem
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Three weeks left to apply for this #fullyfunded #PhDopportunity in my group! 🚨
Are you an UK-Home student interest in #SyntheticCells science?
We are looking for you!

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

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Please RT📢 #Fullyfunded #PhD opportunity for #International Student 📢

Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

César Rodriguez-Emmenegger awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. César Rodriguez-Emmenegger, principal Investigator at IBEC, based in the Barcelona Science Park, has been awarded an  ERC Consolidator Grant. Backed by funding amounting to €2 M over the next five yea...

#PCBCommunity | @ibecbarcelona.bsky.social scientist César Rodriguez-Emmeneguer has been awarded a #ERCCoG. Congrats!👏

With €2M funding, his #PhagoSynCell project will develop #SyntheticCells that mimic #phagocytosis to fight #antibioticresistant pathogens 👉 bit.ly/4fsxBw5

#ERCResearch #HorizonEU

🧐Join the @smartcellsunisi.bsky.social group at the #UniversityOfSiena!
Create #SyntheticCells with programmable #MembraneDynamics and #CatalyticActivity, inspired by natural #CellularProcesses. 🥼
Check out #PhDposition: www.comeincell.org/dc15-light-c...
#ComeInCell #MSCA

Shaping the future of medicine, agriculture, and sustainability with synthetic biology Synthetic biology is revolutionizing life sciences by applying engineering principles to redesign biological systems for medicine, energy, and environmental solutions, while raising ethical and safety...

Li's review of #SyntheticBiology encompasses #BioBrick #DNA sequences, #GeneticCircuits to detect environmental toxins, #SyntheticCells to produce therapeutic drugs and organs-on-chips. Examples of BioBrick #Patent applications include EP4001407. bit.ly/41dfQNV #CarbonSequestration #PatentSearch

First session of #SBUK2024 on #SyntheticCells. Great keynote from Kate Adamala asking 'how close are we to creating living cells from non-living components?' and hearing about some really exciting applications of SynCells including drug production and astrobiology!

Large-scale-integration and collective oscillations of 2D artificial cells - Nature Communications Large-scale-integration of artificial cells on a chip can reveal emergent multicellular phenomena. Here, authors report 2D coupled lattices of artificial cells programmed by genetic oscillators, exhib...

My latest article is out! 1000 artificial cells synchronize in 2D and collective behavior emerges!
#microfluidics #artificialcells #syntheticcells #cellfreeexpression
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

ComeInCell Launches:A European Doctoral Network to Train the Next Generation of Cell Scientists

A new European doctoral network launches today:

"Condensates at Membrane Scaffolds - Integrated Systems as Synthetic Cell Compartments" ( = #ComeInCell).

#biotechnology #biomedics #syntheticcells #biochemistry #bioengineering

www.mpikg.mpg.de/6845600/laun...