In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

It is a tenet of basic biology that our body reacts to blood loss by stimulating the production of red blood cells (erythrocytes). The cells of the hematopoietic (blood-forming) system in the bone ...

In the 'first wave' of synthetic biology, researchers developed basic elements and modules that allowed transcriptional, translational and post-translational control of cellular processes. The 'second ...

In biological systems, phospholipids are made by enzymes embedded in preexisting phospholipid membranes. Such circular dependence has hindered the development of methods for making membranes for ...