Artificial cells are constructed to imitate natural cells and allow researchers to explore
biological process and the origin of life. The construction methods for artificial cells, through …

Nucleic acid therapeutics are rapidly expanding because of recent advancements in
production and purification. This class of therapeutics may change the field of disease …

A fundamental feature of cellular plasma membranes (PMs) is an asymmetric lipid
distribution between the bilayer leaflets. However, neither the detailed, comprehensive …

The bottom‐up construction of a synthetic cell from nonliving building blocks capable of
mimicking cellular properties and behaviors helps to understand the particular biophysical …

The construction of artificial cells with specific cell-mimicking functions helps to explore
complex biological processes and cell functions in natural cell systems and provides an …

Creating an artificial cell from the bottom up is a long‐standing challenge and, while
significant progress has been made, the full realization of this goal remains elusive …

Closed lipid bilayers in the form of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are commonly used
membrane models. Various methods have been developed to prepare GUVs, however it is …

In nature, cells self-assemble into spatially coded tissular configurations to execute higher-
order biological functions as a collective. This mechanism has stimulated the recent trend in …

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are versatile and promising cell-sized bio-membrane
mimetic platforms. Their applications range from understanding and quantifying membrane …

Giant liposomes or giant vesicles, with a diameter ranging from 1 to 100 μm, have been
used to examine simple biophysical and biochemical processes in isolation from living cells …