Are implantable, living pharmacies within reach?
Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients
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Minerals Play Newly Discovered Role in Earth’s Phosphorus Cycle
New research finds that iron oxide in soils can recycle phosphorus from organic matter.
Transporting Precious Cargo Using the Body’s Own Delivery System
Advances ‘get us one step closer to the ultimate goal of targeted biological drug delivery’
Northwestern researchers propose a new, holistic way to teach synthetic biology
The field of synthetic biology, the science of manipulating biology, has a lot of “cooks in the kitchen,” which has both helped it flourish and made it unusually difficult to … Continued
Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matter
New study helps disentangle microbes’ role in global carbon cycle.
Revealing new insights on membrane protein organization
Neha Kamat and her team uncovers how differences in the thickness of biological membranes can impact a protein’s ability to insert and move within membranes.
Using Cancer’s Strength to Fight Against It
New technique made human T-cells 100 times more potent at killing cancer cells.
Engineering viruses to kill deadly pathogens
Study marks critical step in creating new therapies to treat antibiotic-resistant infections
New platform solves key problems in targeted drug delivery
Northwestern University synthetic biologists have developed a flexible new platform that removes barriers for promising cell and gene therapies.
Pioneering New Methods to Understand Protein Folding
Synthetic biologists have developed a new technique for measuring protein folding stability on an unprecedented scale.