Researchers have built a synthetic-cell platform that can be chemically adjusted in real time, sidestepping a long-standing ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

Researchers have successfully built the simplest artificial cell ever that can navigate using chemicals, much like living cells do. Chemotaxis is the essential navigation system cells use to find ...

A team at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela has developed a more flexible chemical strategy to create ...

Construction of theophylline-responsive, eukaryotic kinetic ON-riboswitches with a highly efficient chimeric IRES between the PSIV and CrPV[GCA] IRESes. Credit: ACS Synthetic Biology (2024). DOI: ...

The shape and morphology of a cell play a key role in the biological function. This corresponds to the principle of "form follows function," which is common in modern fields of design and architecture ...

Cyanobacteria use light to survive, and these organisms are regulated by circadian rhythms–the 24-hour biological cycle that is found in many animals, and which helps control fundamental processes ...

Not long ago, solving the crystal structure of a protein required an entire PhD. Growing crystals, collecting X-ray diffraction data, and interpreting electron density maps often took years of ...

A team of UC Merced researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep time, mimicking the daily rhythms found in living organisms. Their findings shed light on how biological clocks ...

You don’t want the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes inside your cells — it can make you seriously ill. Now, researchers at Aarhus University have used its unique mode of movement as inspiration to ...

Artificial cells using riboswitch-gene fusion in liposomes produce fluorescent proteins when detecting specific targets. Multiple cell types can simultaneously detect different targets.RetryClaude can ...