In recent years, Pickering emulsions and their applications have attracted a great deal of
attention due to their special features, which include easy preparation and enhanced …

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 …

Bottom-up assembly of higher-order cytomimetic systems capable of coordinated physical
behaviours, collective chemical signalling and spatially integrated processing is a key …

The design and construction of synthetic therapeutic protocells capable of establishing
cognate chemical communication channels with living cells is an important challenge for …

Bioinspired multi-compartment architectures are desired in synthetic biology and metabolic
engineering, as credited by their cell-like structures and intrinsic ability of assembling …

Although the complexity of synthetic cells has continued to increase in recent years,
chemical communication between protocell models and living organisms remains a key …

The design of compartmentalized colloids that exhibit biomimetic properties is providing
model systems for developing synthetic cell-like entities (protocells). Inspired by the cell …

Building synthetic protocells and prototissues hinges on the formation of biomimetic skeletal
frameworks. Recreating the complexity of cytoskeletal and exoskeletal fibers, with their …

The construction of artificial cells from inanimate molecular building blocks is one of the
grand challenges of our time. In addition to being used as simplified cell models to decipher …

The design and construction of synthetic prototissues from integrated assemblies of artificial
protocells is an important challenge for synthetic biology and bioengineering. Here we …