4 Around 2013, Fuzhong Zhang, a synthetic biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, came across an article about the challenges of spider silk protein synthesis ... You’re still trying to build ...

Delete a gene here; express a protein ... create a synthetic cell from a minimal collection of functional components. 2 However, en route to this goal, he needed to learn how to build biology, and how ...

Prof. Göpfrich's work starts with the question of how synthetic cells can be created that bypass protein synthesis, which is essential in living cells. She uses the technique of RNA origami ...