We’ve developed blue light-activated DNA! We used it to create the first dual light-activated cell-free logic gate 🤩🧬⚡️🧪 Preprint led by incredible student Dr Denis Hartmann Razia Chowdhry Jefferson Smith SBM CDT Oxford Chemistry UCL Chemistry bit.ly/3b7EjwH

Cellulose shoes made by bacteria | Nature Biotechnology short profile of our collaborators and friends at Modern Synthesis nature.com/articles/s4158…

We have 3 postdoc vacancies in Bioinspired Technologies & Synthetic Cells in our group Imperial ChemEng. Projects are at the cutting edge of microfluidics, SynCells, membrane engineering & BioHybrid design. Adverts to follow. Interested? Get in touch! RT massively appreciated!

We're looking for 3 postdocs to work with us Imperial ChemEng fabriCELL on various topics in SynCell science, bio-inspired tech, microfluidics and BioHybrid systems Build-a-Cell Synthetic Cell initiative. RT massively appreciated! jobs.ac.uk/job/CZR963/res… jobs.ac.uk/job/CZR972/res…

Michael Booth and his team at UCL Chemistry have developed a method to turn gene expression on or off using multiple wavelengths of light. A promising technique to study complex cellular processes and advance #syntheticcell #research and #technology! More: syntheticcell.eu/2023/05/22/res…

We engineered new synthetic and biological parts for synthetic cells 💪 for controllable communication with living bacteria 😍 orthogonal to previous studies 😎 Published in Nature Chemical Biology Led by Jefferson Smith Dr Denis Hartmann UCL Chemistry @SynBioCDT tinyurl.com/bdd3y56m

Big thanks to Nature Chemical Biology for inviting us to write a Research Briefing about our new paper on light-activated communication between synthetic cells and living cells 🤗😍🧑‍🏫 A short digestible piece 😋🧑‍🍳 Jefferson Smith SynBio CDT UCL Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4158…

New content online: Enzyme-less nanopore detection of post-translational modifications within long polypeptides dlvr.it/SsqTPX

The news & views article "Unfolding the path to nanopore protein sequencing" has been published in Nature Nanotechnology nature.com/articles/s4156…

🎉Congratulations to all of today's The Royal Society prize winners, including our very own Prof Hagan Bayley Hagan Bayley group chem.ox.ac.uk/article/oxford…

Check out this incredible paper, developing a soft, microscale droplet-based power source able to activate neurons! Just published in nature from Hagan Bayley group Linna Zhou Oxford Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4158…

Tiny soft droplet battery that modulates neural tissue activities. Proud of our team to publish this work in Nature, Hagan Bayley group @yogayzhang Oxford Chemistry nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Surface tension measurement and calculation of model biomolecular condensates - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Nott Lab Oxford Fluid Dynamics Lab @rudolfgazon @OxColloidGroup 1/n

Today Apple highlighted how their M3 silicon chip provides powerful, accessible compute — citing the ability to run the complex analysis required for DNA/RNA #nanopore sequencing, by anyone, anywhere in the world. bit.ly/3sdxPVv #AnythingAnyoneAnywhere #AppleEvent

We developed light-activated plasmids for cell-free and living cells 🤩🔦🧬🧫 To do this we created a new method to add chemical modifications into plasmids 😮😎 Published in Chemical Science Led by Khoa Chung @uclchemistry @oxfordchemistry @synbiocdt pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The resolution from Cryo-EM is just getting so good

We are launching a new DPhil (doctoral) training programme in Engineering Biology! Next application deadline 1st March 2024. Come join us! Engineering Science, Oxford #Engineering #Biology #PhD ox.ac.uk/admissions/gra…

Apply for our new DPhil in #EngineeringBiology programme across the Universities of Bristol Bristol BioDesign Institute and University of Oxford. Choose your home institution and submit an application: Bristol: bristolbiodesign.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/16/app… Oxford: ox.ac.uk/admissions/gra… Deadline 1st March 2024. #PhD

Oxford nanopore sequencing

Published today in nature, we describe an approach for single-molecule protein reading on Oxford Nanopore arrays. By utilizing ClpX unfoldase to ratchet proteins through a CsgG nanopore, we achieved single-amino-acid sensitivity. nature.com/articles/s4158…