How to grow almost Anything?
HTGAA Class is back in 2016. More students, more sites.
Spatial multiplexing for multisignal cellular imaging
G Xu, E Boyden, KD Piatkevich, K Adamala
US Patent App. 15/099,232, 2016
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Pumilio Domain-based Modular Protein Architecture for RNA Binding
ES Boyden, KP Adamala, DA Martin-Alarcon
US Patent App. 14/995,169
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FAB 2.0
The theme of the 12th international Fab Lab conference in Shenzhen, China, is fab labs that make fab labs: systems that makes systems, applying the biology concept of self-replicating systems into the fabrication world.
Kate is giving a talk on synthetic life during the plenary Symposium.
What if we build life instead of growing?
Or what if we grow machines instead of building?
New Publication

Programmable RNA-binding protein composed of repeats of a single modular unit;
Katarzyna P. Adamala*, Daniel A. Martin-Alarcon*, and Edward S. Boyden;
PNAS, 2016, 10.1073/pnas.1519368113; *equal contribution
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TEDx talk
New publication

Collaboration between primitive cell membranes and soluble catalysts;
K. Adamala*, A. E. Engelhart* and J. W. Szostak;
Nature Communications, 2016, doi:10.1038/ncomms11041; *equal contribution
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Floating FAB LAB Amazon
The FabLab Lima and Konrad Adenauer Foundation organised workshop Floating FAB LAB Amazon.
We discussed the opportunities for using synthetic minimal cells as biosensors in the Floating FabLab on the Amazon river.
Fab Academy meets synthetic biology.
Introducing How To Grow (Almost) Anything
The first synth bio FabLab Academy includes Kate’s unit on synthetic minimal cells.
New publication

Generation of Functional RNAs from Inactive Oligonucleotide Complexes by Non-enzymatic Primer Extension;
K. Adamala*, A. E. Engelhart* and J. W. Szostak;
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (1), pp 483 – 489, DOI: 10.1021/ja511564d; *equal contribution
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