Our paper where we use use microfluidics to generate non-lamellar lipid nanoparticles (#cubosomes and #hexosomes) is out today in Scientific Reports. Had a lot of fun with this research - hopefully others find it useful. Huge congrats to all involved. ☀️❤️ nature.com/articles/s4159…

What is the meaning of life? Scientists are increasingly trying to create synthetic cells from molecular building blocks, blurring the line between living and non-living. What defines life? Why does it matter? Check out our commentary on this topic: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚀Our latest PNASNews paper, showcasing hydrogel artificial cells is out! ✅ Modular synthetic organelles ✅ Engineered biomimetic behaviours: motility, sensing, stimuli-response & cargo release ✅ Powered by membrane proteins, enzymes & nanoparticles tinyurl.com/SynCel

Fantastic work - novel functionality unlocked

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…

Inspiring moments at Euroanalysis XXI in Geneva, August 27th-31st, 2023! The theme of the meeting was 'Analytical Probing of Complex Systems.' Here Prof. Petra Dittrich after an inspiring keynote talk and post doc Robert Strutt after an insightful poster presentation 🌟

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Strutt for winning the best talk award at 32nd Swiss Soft Days! Rob gave a talk on artificial cells. The event was hosted at the Biozentrum in Basel and brought together Swiss researchers in the areas of soft matter, biophysics and nano materials🥇

Our new perspectives article, out now in Lab on a Chip, explores how 3D printed artificial tissues could replace the use of ex-vivo animal tissues when screening the safety of cosmetics. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Dyson School of Design Engineering Imperial IMSE fabriCELL Imperial College London

Big THANK-YOU to all department members for the fantastic retreat! The lightening talks, workshops, rally and party were so much fun!!! 🎉🥂🎈

Delighted to receive the best ECR talk for the "World Premiere" of the DIB-BOT, an open-source hardware approach for high throughput droplet interface bilayer deposition! A quick thread to introduce my robot to the rest of the world... 🤖

ETH Zurich Public Tour: At today’s fully booked lab tour some 40+ visitors learned about microchips and their great use for medical and diagnostic applications or for biological analyses. Big thanks to the Bioanalytics Group at ETH Zürich! > u.ethz.ch/H2ZFj

Pleased to have contributed to this Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology paper: Present and future of synthetic cell development. nature.com/articles/s4158… with Dora Tang @MarileenD Kate Adamala Takinoue Lab (瀧ノ上研究室, 情報生命物理学) & Petra Schwille. fabriCELL Build-a-Cell MaxSynBio BaSyC Imperial ChemEng

Artificial cell themed Basler Leckerly. Love it ! Thanks @NCCR_MSE

We at Lab on a Chip are very pleased to present our second-ever annual Reviews issue! 📚🎉 📒 Lab on a Chip 2024 Reviews Issue - FREE TO READ 🔗pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/jo…

Excited to see one of my PhD projects published in JACS Au today! Co-authored by my amazing PhD supervisors Yuval Elani, Marina Kuimova and Nick Brooks within Imperial Chemistry! Read bellow: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that we were granted a NWO Summit grant entitled ‘Evolving Life from Nonlife’ (EVOLF) with 40 million euro for a 10-year project aimed to cross the gap between non-life and life by assembling a living synthetic cell from lifeless biomolecules!

Our new manuscript reports using microwave resonator to count droplets network formed in 3D-printed microfluidics. Available on Lab on a chip now. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I recently learned that the novelist, Cormac McCarthy, spent several years at the Santa Fe Institute helping scientists write papers. His advice was condensed into a brief Nature column. The first three points, and some of the final points, are really good. (h/t eryney marrogi)

Eshel Ben-Jacob saw bacterial colonies as canvases—and let them paint.