Do you want to identify the neighbours of your favourite cells but are unsure where to start?
Check out our Primer, just out in @Dev_journal , for an overview of synthetic neighbour-labelling systems and of how they can be used in developmental settings.
Huge thanks to @CellySally, Tamina Lebek and Guillaume Blin for a real fun writing experience!
Researchers from university labs in the U.K. are developing models of brain cell interactions using a company's synthetic human cells derived from stem cells.
I'm using these quiet days in the office to catch up on reading and thinking time. The first paper I've gone through is this on the changing landscape for med chemists in industry (HT Keith Hornberger) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c02035# What other papers/editorials/articles would the #chemistry crew here recommend?@chemistry
@L_howes@chemistry A #Thanksgiving break from work should involve reading something non-technical, such as an autobiography. A fascinating one related to the molecules of life is Craig Venter’s “A Life Decoded 🧬”.
A life science venture investor is merging two of its biotechnology portfolio companies to form a single developer of nanoscale medications with programmable properties.
A company offering a biomanufacturing process it says is more efficient and scalable than conventional bio-production methods is raising $9.5 million in its first venture round.
Researchers from a university biochemistry lab and company developing synthetic enzymes designed techniques using engineered bacteria to detect buried land mines at longer distances.
Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
'The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab'
Perspectives call for engineering #photosynthesis to increase carbon capture and increase food production, for using #SyntheticBiology to enhance climate resilience in plants & garnering public support, to consider how the #microbiome of cropland soils could be manipulated to accelerate soil #carboncapture, and for more & better public–private partnerships in #crop research
Darpa Seeking On-Demand, Distributed Production of Proteins
A synthetic biology company is receiving a contract with the U.S. advanced defense research agency to devise a high-speed localized process for making therapeutic proteins.
A company using a process it says can produce synthetic genes with greater accuracy for research and clinical applications is raising $10 million in its first venture round.
Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in the effort to slow the aging process with a novel technique that increased the lifespans of yeast cells by a whopping 82 percent, reports a new study