News - Synthetic Cell

Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials

10 / 12 / 2020cell metabolism circular cell-products microfluidics video

Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials What if we could get cells to produce materials for us? Microfluidics is the technology of controlling soft and biological matter at a small scale. Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Baret and his team at the CRPP institute in Bordeaux create chips to ...

Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products

09 / 12 / 2020artificial photosynthesis CO2 fixation video

Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products What if we could transform the harmful CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere into useful products? Plants can filter CO2 from the atmosphere very efficiently, but also very slowly. Using synthetic biology methods, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb and his team at the Max ...

The promise of synthetic cells

14 / 09 / 2020video

The promise of synthetic cells Charlotte Koster from the Dutch consortium BaSyC explains how building a synthetic cell from scratch can lead to biological solutions that will make industry more sustainable:

Charting the way to minimal cells

16 / 07 / 2020workshop

Proteins reveal hidden functions As it turns out, proteins reveal new, previously hidden functions when you build them from the bottom up, outside of their natural environment. These new functions might actually be quite old, Professor Petra Schwille from Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry shares during the discussions: “Life on ...

Reconstituting Biology 2020: Lorentz workshop 29 June - 1 July 2020

29 / 06 / 2020workshop

Date: 29 June – 3 July 2020 Event location: online workshop Description: This workshop aims to reflect on the achievements in bottom-up synthetic biology worldwide and to map future research directions and visions towards – or even away from – the promise of a synthetic cell. Junior and senior researchers working ...

Issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences about Synthetic Biology

27 / 11 / 2019

This issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences brings together a collection of perspectives and reviews discussing the exciting advances in synthetic biology.

Synthetic Cell symposium held in Madrid

14 / 11 / 2019

The event kicked off with presentations about the science & technology vision of three of the promotors of the Synthetic Cell project: Marileen Dogterom, Petra Schwille and Manuel Thery. Paul Clarke then delivered an inspirational talk about his work at Ocado Technology, a company that has combined AI and ...

Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society

05 / 09 / 2018

Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society Marileen Dogterom (Bionanoscience) is one of seven people who will be designated as Society Fellows of the Biophysical Society. She is awarded this honor for her pioneering experimental work on elucidating the physical mechanisms that govern assembly and dynamics of cytoskeleton filaments, ...

1st International Symposium on Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyC)

27 / 06 / 2018

The symposium is fully dedicated to research on the bottom-up assembly of a functioning synthetic cell from its molecular components. Aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers worldwide to present and discuss the latest results in cutting-edge research on the synthetic cell, and its future scientific and technological ...

Synthetic Cell and Ringberg on STAT

20 / 09 / 2017

An article about the Ringberg workshop and the Synthetic Cell Initiative on STAT. STAT, the online health and life-sciences publication from Boston Globe Media has published last July an article on the Ringberg workshop and the Synthetic Cell Initiative. The article, “From chemicals to life: Scientists try to build cells from ...