Battelle will explore controlling biological functions with microsystems and molecular catalysts. MICA aims to develop artificial nonliving cells capable of sensing, self-repair, and information ...

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Researchers have discovered how unstructured segments of surface proteins regulate the biological function of a cell. Their study, published in Nature Communications, sheds new light on the interplay ...

Three organizations -- SRI International, CFD Research Corp., and UC Berkeley -- join the MICA project, which focuses on integrating microsystems with molecular catalysts to control biological ...

As we have previously noted, few areas of contemporary biomedical science so vividly illustrate the tension between knowledge as a source of public safety and security, and knowledge as a source of ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure—and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of chemical characteristics. Many ...

Researchers developed tools that combine programmable light, continuous cell measurements, and modeling to improve control of ...

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can perform the basic switching functions of transistors.

Source: Via Tenor The human brain has been described as the most complex structure in the universe (Dolan, 2007; see also Pang, 2023). Researchers estimate that we have over 100 trillion connections ...