Mirror life is a scientific fantasy leading to a dangerous reality
https://theconversation.com/mirror-life-is-a-scientific-fantasy-leading-to-a-dangerous-reality-a-synthetic-biologist-explains-how-mirror-bacteria-could-conquer-life-on-earth-245842
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
https://www.the-scientist.com/mirror-bacteria-research-poses-significant-risks-dozens-of-scientists-warn-72419
Scientists disagree on the origin of life
Discussion on the origin(s) of life with Kate Adamala, Addy Pross and Chrisantha Fernando
Quanta Magazine podcast, "Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve".
By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/even-synthetic-life-forms-with-a-tiny-genome-can-evolve/id1021340531?i=1000641216723/
Kate talked about engineering cells from scratch for biotechnology applications.
the-scientist.com/podcasts/the-art-and-science-of-synthetic-biology-71525
podbean link: thescientistspeaks.podbean.com/e/the-art-and-science-of-synthetic-biology
Kate talked about engineering synthetic cells as part of SynBYSS seminar series. Recording on youtube.
Excellent summary of work on the evolution of minimal living cells.
Kate and Judee talk about Trumpet biocomputing platform and practical applications for medicine.
Our Trumpet platform summarized with emphasis on biomedical applications.
Kate talked about building life in the lab on the Reason with Science channel. Recording on youtube or podcast website.
Kate was guest of the Neha Anwar podcast, talking about biomedical and other practical applications of synthetic cell engineering.
Synthetic cell engineering podcast.
Kate was guest of the YoloTalks podcast, talking about artificial cells and space exploration. Youtube: Creating artificial cells, and Spotify version.
Our lab was featured in CBS Connect article "Life as we don't know it".
Kate participates in webinar "Building a Synthetic Biology Platform for Drug Delivery" organized by The Scientist.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/26/fda-develop-framework-evaluate-synthetic-cells/
Kate Adamala wants to make life from scratch! As Professor at University of Minnesota working on the origins of life and building a synthetic cell, Kate’s work touches on astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering, and biocomputing. Kate and her team create tiny bioreactors. These have applications in synthetic biology, drug development and biosensing. Building Artificial Cells with Kate Adamala | Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck 2x05.
Synthetic biology allows us to build minimal cell-like systems, to investigate origin of life and build tools for space exploration.
The life of our Last Universal Common Ancestor | LAS 2021.
Advanced Science News piece:
Artificial cells with specialized internal chemistries could revolutionize how we approach precision medicine.
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/artificial-cells-valuable-niche-in-medicine/
Kate participates in The Dissenter webinar "Synthetic Cells, Cell Evolution, the Origin of Life, and Astrobiology".
Kate was a guest of EBRC In Translation podcast, discussing science, safety and security of synthetic cell engineering ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com/1581817/9465178-9-building-cells-and-synbio-in-space-w-kate-adamala
CRS News published our text about synthetic cells in drug delivery applications.
Synthetic cells: happy middle between liposome drug delivery and engineered natural cells
Kate's iBiology talks on synthetic cells have been published.
Part 1: Synthetic Cells: Building Life to Understand It
Part 2: Synthetic Cells: Approach and Applications
Kate participates in webinar Synthetic Cells · Artificial Life · Brain-Computer Interfaces · Space Exploration hosted by the Molecular Programming Interest Group.
Webinars of the Origins Center, the Netherlands: "Life but not alive"
Life but not alive.
Kate was a guest of Space Explr podcast, discussing Science And Engineering of Building Synthetic Cells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fznl9wLtmw
2020-10-29 18:53:09
Kate Adamala and Trinity Hamilton from the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota discuss how tiny life forms on the fringes may illuminate huge truths about life in the universe. What do microbes that live on glaciers and in snow on Earth tell us about the potential for life on Mars? What can a cell made from scratch in a lab reveal about how life may have originated here on Earth—and beyond? This research on extremophiles and synthetic cells provides a unique take on life that may shed important insights into space travel and extraterrestrial life.
Probable Meets Possible: When Life Gets Weird.
Kate gave a seminar for the Community of Biotechnology.
https://www.facebook.com/cbiotechnology/videos/680207569301004/
2020-06-30 18:58:01
Aanika Biosciences presents conversation series on topics of cutting edge synthetic biology.
Conversations with Aanika E10: Creating Synthetic Cells with Dr. Kate Adamala.
Kate helped with Quanta Magazine Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’ podcast.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterial-organelles-revise-ideas-about-which-came-first-20190612/
Opinion on lab operations in The Scientist
https://www.the-scientist.com/opinion-lab-work-under-isolation-67398
2020-03-05 05:42:47
Kate's Waterloo seminar is posted online. Primer on synthetic cell work in our lab and little bit of the overview of the field.
2019-11-21 02:17:36
Kate's episode on P3 Dystopia show is now live.
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7345117
2019-08-05 18:55:29
ComplexityExplorer.org course 'Origins of Life
Origins of Life: Chemical Comminalties - Early Metabolisms - An Introduction by Kate Adamala.
Kate's episode on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast is live.
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/07/22/56-kate-adamala-on-creating-synthetic-life/
2019-05-29 18:46:20
Breakthrough Discuss 2019 was held at UC Berkeley April 11-12, 2019. The theme, “Migration of Life in the Universe,” brought together an all-star group of astronomers, biologists, chemists and other experts to discuss whether and how primitive life can move between planets and stars, and if that is how life began on Earth.
Kate Adamala | Life, But Not Alive: Breakthrough Discuss 2019 .
Great editorial in Science intorducing new, exciting paper and highlighting interesting aspects of building synthetic cells.
Excellen editorial in Nature, describing rationale of engineering synthetic life, and the most common approaches to various problems we're facing en route to a ynthetic cell.
Local copy pdf
Interesting summary of the origins of Build-a-Cell initiative.
Kate published commentary on using synthetic cells to prototype cell circuits in Cell Systems journal.
Kate's Medium post Why should we personalize medicine?
Kate presented concept of building synthetic minimal cells, with its biotechnological, biomedical and basic science implications, in a TEDx talk "Life but not alive".