Noncanonical amino acids enable plug and play vaccine platform in the ALiCE cell free system doi.org/10.1038/s415...

PhD position in the Niederholtmeyer Lab (Straubing Germany) on feedback control of dynamic condensate assembly and disassembly edu.nl/7v364 Deadline: 26/04 @hniederho.bsky.social #SynCell #SyntheticCell

Engineered Vibrio natriegens lysate can replace multiple components of cell culture media doi.org/10.64898/202...

Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫 We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions. In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵ @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Apply by 24.05.2026 👇 shorturl.at/6X7M4 Boosts appreciated!

Our new Complex Systems Lab website www.complexsystemslab.org is now available. Still under construction, but soon full power with our research areas, publications, teaching, outreach, news and highlights. Stay tuned. @marktas.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social

De novo-designed ribozyme-controlled riboregulator for cell-free diagnostics share.google/xeD1QF1U5Oo4...

AI in Biology & Health symposium — 3rd edition 📅 June 18, 2026 📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris Keynotes from EMBL-EBI, Inria & Max Planck Institute. Poster submissions still open. Register ↘️ forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Physics-constrained neural ordinary differential equation models to discover and predict microbial community dynamics doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Dissecting host stress responses for predictable heterologous gene expression in E. coli url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... #microsky

Machine learning-driving optimization and spatial assembly of a cell-free system for high-yield liquiritigenin production doi.org/10.1007/s443...

Tardigrade-Derived Strategy for Low-Cost Storage of Cell-Free Expression Lysates

Lipid-conjugated DNA enables on-demand delivery of lipids and proteins to synthetic cells doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to share the final version of @oliviamghosh.bsky.social's paper on inferring low dimensional phenotype-fitness maps from high-throughput fitness measurements across environments. Fun collaboration with @oliviamghosh.bsky.social, @grantkinsler.bsky.social, & @petrovadmitri.bsky.social

Join us at London Calling 2026! Take this exciting opportunity to connect with some of the brightest minds in the field and explore the latest breakthroughs in Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Want to attend as a team? Buy three, get one FREE. Tickets here: https://bit.ly/4sS0I3f #nanoporeconf

Coordinating Calvin Cycle and Glycolysis in Escherichia coli pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Engineered microbial hydrogels with confined architecture and binary microbes for efficient hydrogen production doi.org/10.1038/s414...

40 years after the cloning of Sp1, Robert Tjian and coll. discover even more properties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The scientific life of Marjory Stephenson who isolated the first enzyme from a bacterial cell! | The Royal Society royalsociety.org/video/the-sc...

Automated Assembly of Programmable RNA-Based Sensors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Peptide-Induced Formation of Extracellular Vesicles that are Distinct From Endogenous E. coli OMVs, and Provide an Enhanced Platform for Protein Production and Purification doi.org/10.64898/202...

A new strategy to stabilize gene circuits. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Selection-free whole genome transplantation revives dead microbes doi.org/10.64898/202...

Online now: Toward unbiased objective functions in constraint-based modeling

With a nice shout-out for our Genomic Code paper proposing that the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hydration-dehydration cycles drive compartment dynamics in minimal protocells doi.org/10.64898/202...

Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells. Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made? In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀 The #BaCell3D2026 speaker lineup is here! We are excited to welcome an outstanding group of experts in organoids and advanced 3D cellular systems to Basel this June! ⏳Our meetings tend to fill up quickly, so we encourage you to secure your spot early: conferences.unibas.ch/frontend/ind...

Bringing the genetically minimal cell to life on a computer in 4D doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Analysis and control of untemplated DNA polymerase activity for guided synthesis of kilobase-scale DNA sequences doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Spligation enables programmable chimeric RNA generation in living cells doi.org/10.64898/202...

A new preprint with Matthew Schmitt, @kiseokmicro.bsky.social and Vincenzo Vitelli makes a huge step forward in learning functional groups of components in complex biological systems. It's dimension reduction that speaks to biological function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

"we propose that the protoribosome was a parasite (...). If this view is correct, then like the spliceosome in the stem eukaryote, a repurposed host-parasite interaction led to a dramatic change in cell biology at the base of the tree of life, in this case leading to the exit from an RNA world"

An Engineered Variant of E. coli Nissle 1917 with Enhanced Transformation Efficiency and Robustness pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Preparing my talk in Heidelberg on Cognition Spaces for the @embo.org @embl.org conference, “Collectivity in Living Systems: Emergence, Function, and Evolution.” An exciting program with outstanding speakers and a great chance to catch up with old colleagues. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

The Automation of Science: Past, Present, and Future. Prof. Ross King youtu.be/WANcDX8g2ow?...

What problem do you hope bioengineering or synthetic biology approaches will enable us to tackle in the next decade? doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

A portable orthogonal replication system enables continuous gene evolution near the biological speed limit doi.org/10.64898/202...

Boosted cell-free gene expression for robust signal readout from a single-copy DNA template in microdroplets doi.org/10.64898/202...

The Origins of Agar open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/a... #microsky

Generative AI for synthetic biology: Designing biological parts, circuits, and genomes doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms elifesciences.org/articles/98637 #biology #life #evolution

Engineering non-exponential proliferation in Escherichia coli using functionalized protein aggregates doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Dissecting reversible and irreversible single cell state transitions from gene regulatory networks doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Higher-order interactions in auxotroph communities enhance their resilience to resource fluctuations doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Development of a toehold switch detection platform based on a modified cell-free translation system for specific differentiation of coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus genotypes and sensitive detection of phloem-limited bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

High-Throughput FRET Affinity Screening Technique (HTFAST) For Cell-Free Expressed Binding Protein Characterization doi.org/10.64898/202...