The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

Osmosis is a universal phenomenon occurring in a broad variety of processes and fields. It
is the archetype of entropic forces, both trivial in its fundamental expression–the van't Hoff …

Constructing a minimal machinery for autonomous self-division of synthetic cells is a major
goal of bottom-up synthetic biology. One paradigm has been the E. coli divisome, with the …

How bacteria grow and divide while retaining a defined shape is a fundamental question in
microbiology, but technological advances are now driving a new understanding of how the …

Liposomes are versatile supramolecular assemblies widely used in basic and applied
sciences. Here we present a novel microfluidics-based method, octanol-assisted liposome …

The protein actin forms filaments that provide cells with mechanical support and driving
forces for movement. Actin contributes to biological processes such as sensing …

Bacteria must divide to increase in number and colonize their niche. Binary fission is the
most widespread means of bacterial cell division, but even this relatively simple mechanism …

Vesosomes are nested liposomal structures with high potential as advanced drug delivery
vehicles, bioreactors and artificial cells. However, to date no method has been reported to …

Bacterial cytokinesis is commonly initiated by the Z-ring, a cytoskeletal structure that
assembles at the site of division. Its primary component is FtsZ, a tubulin superfamily …

Bacterial cell division is orchestrated by a tubulin homologue, FtsZ, which polymerizes to
form a ring-like structure that is both a scaffold for the assembly of the bacterial cytokinetic …