The origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between
nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain …

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

Liquid–liquid phase separation of disordered proteins has emerged as a ubiquitous route to
membraneless compartments in living cells, and similar coacervates may have played a role …

A key challenge in origin-of-life research is the identification of plausible conditions that
facilitate multiple steps along the pathway from chemistry to biology. The incompatibility of …

In the field of bottom‐up synthetic biology, lipid vesicles provide an important role in the
construction of artificial cells. Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), due to their membrane's …

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 …

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are often used to mimic biological membranes in
reconstitution experiments. They are also widely used in research on synthetic cells, as they …

In the last decades, liposomes acquired a striking success in the biomedical field thanks to
their biocompatibility and drug delivery ability. Many liposomal drug formulations have been …

The field of prebiotic chemistry has demonstrated that complex organic chemical systems
that exhibit various life-like properties can be produced abiotically in the laboratory …

One of the goals of synthetic biology is the bottom‐up construction of an artificial cell, the
successful realization of which could shed light on how cellular life emerged and could also …