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SUMMARY:Life\, reimagined: Building a new biology from the ground up throug
 h synthetic cells
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to staff and students across Imperial Colleg
 e London.\nHosted by Dr Yuval Elani\, Department of Chemical Engineering\,
  this presentation forms a part of his Lister Research Prize Fellowship\, 
 conferred by the Lister Institute.\nSynthetic Cells as an Alternative Para
 digm for Biological Engineering\nSynthetic biology is poised to be one of 
 the defining technologies of our time with the potential to transform how 
 we treat disease\, monitor our environments\, and manufacture chemicals. O
 ver recent decades\, remarkable progress has been made in “re-engineerin
 g” living cells to give them new functions.  However\, engineering livi
 ng systems differs fundamentally from the design of traditional engineered
  systems\, such as software\, electronics\, or mechanical devices. Biology
  is impossibly complex\, adaptive\, and often unpredictable\, making it a 
 uniquely challenging medium for engineering. As we push toward more ambiti
 ous applications\, these challenges are becoming increasingly apparent. \
 nIn this talk\, I will describe our efforts to address these limitations b
 y developing a new approach to engineering biology. Rather than modifying 
 existing living cells\, we seek to construct encapsulated chemical microsy
 stems—synthetic cells—from first principles\, starting from molecular 
 building blocks. We aim to programme these synthetic cells with behaviours
  typically associated with living systems\, such as communication\, signal
 ling\, bioproduction\, motility and stimulus–response. I will also discu
 ss our microfluidic technologies for the scalable manufacture of synthetic
  cells and related lipid-based drug delivery systems.\nSpeaker bio:\nYuval
  Elani | About | Imperial College London
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/210546/synthetic-cells-as-an-alternat
 ive-paradigm-for-biological-engineering/
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LOCATION:LT2\, ACE Extension\, South Kensington Campus\, Imperial College L
 ondon\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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