new publication

prototyping biology

Purification of post-transcriptionally modified tRNAs for enhanced cell-free translation systems;
Evan M Kalb , Jose L Alejo , Leticia Dias-Fields , Isaac Knudson , Joshua A Davisson , Efren Maldonado , Kanokporn Chattrakun , Shangsi Lin , Jung Yeon Lee , Tianchen He , Alanna Schepartz , Shenglong Zhang , Scott C Blanchard , Aaron E Engelhart , Katarzyna P Adamala
Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 54, Issue 5, 24 March 2026, gkag208
https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/54/5/gkag208/8516224


new publication

CyanoConstruct: simple platform for cyanobacterial expression construct assembly and translational tuning;
Orion M. Venero, Roland Ndeh, Andrew Pan, Pekka Patrikainen, Malin Eriksson, Amir Akhgari, Lauri Kakko, Daria Nedorezova, Osama Mohamed, Lia Thomson, Ann Bonde, Niina Kelanne, Eva-Mari Aro, Katarzyna P. Adamala, Pauli Kallio
BMC Biotechnol 26, 38 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-025-01098-7


The potential benefits and risks of developing “mirror life”

Future Tense podcasts: The potential benefits and risks of developing “mirror life”

Synthetic biologists are hard at work developing artificial biological molecules as the first step toward developing a mirror cell that would be immune from infection. If they’re successful, it could transform the world of medicine.
But while the potential of mirror life is great, so too are the risks. There are warnings of a catastrophic impact if the cells can’t be controlled. And that’s prompted calls for a moratorium on the research.