Present and future of synthetic cell development

Katarzyna P Adamala¹, Marileen Dogterom², Yuval Elani^{3

4}, Petra Schwille⁵, Masahiro Takinoue^{6

7}, T-Y Dora Tang^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Cellular Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. kadamala@umn.edu.
² Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. m.dogterom@tudelft.nl.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK. y.elani@imperial.ac.uk.
⁴ FabriCELL, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, London, UK. y.elani@imperial.ac.uk.
⁵ Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. schwille@biochem.mpg.de.
⁶ Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. takinoue@c.titech.ac.jp.
⁷ Living Systems Materialogy (LiSM) Research Group, International Research Frontiers Initiative, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. takinoue@c.titech.ac.jp.
⁸ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany. dora.tang@uni-saarland.de.
⁹ Synthetic Biology, Department of Biology, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. dora.tang@uni-saarland.de.

Katarzyna P Adamala et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2024 Mar.

. 2024 Mar;25(3):162-167.

doi: 10.1038/s41580-023-00686-9. Epub 2023 Dec 15.

Katarzyna P Adamala¹, Marileen Dogterom², Yuval Elani^{3

4}, Petra Schwille⁵, Masahiro Takinoue^{6

7}, T-Y Dora Tang^{8

9}

¹ Department of Genetics, Cellular Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. kadamala@umn.edu.
² Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. m.dogterom@tudelft.nl.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK. y.elani@imperial.ac.uk.
⁴ FabriCELL, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, London, UK. y.elani@imperial.ac.uk.
⁵ Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. schwille@biochem.mpg.de.
⁶ Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. takinoue@c.titech.ac.jp.
⁷ Living Systems Materialogy (LiSM) Research Group, International Research Frontiers Initiative, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. takinoue@c.titech.ac.jp.
⁸ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany. dora.tang@uni-saarland.de.
⁹ Synthetic Biology, Department of Biology, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. dora.tang@uni-saarland.de.

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