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SUMMARY:Life\, reimagined: Building a new biology from the ground up throu
 gh synthetic cells
LOCATION:Imperial College: LT2\, ACE Extension
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to staff and students across Imperial Colle
 ge London.\nHosted by Dr Yuval Elani\, Department of Chemical Engineering\
 , this presentation forms a part of his Lister Research Prize Fellowship\,
  conferred by the Lister Institute.\nSynthetic Cells as an Alternative Par
 adigm for Biological Engineering\nSynthetic biology is poised to be one of
  the defining technologies of our time with the potential to transform how
  we treat disease\, monitor our environments\, and manufacture chemicals. 
 Over recent decades\, remarkable progress has been made in “re-engineeri
 ng” living cells to give them new functions.  However\, engineering liv
 ing systems differs fundamentally from the design of traditional engineere
 d systems\, such as software\, electronics\, or mechanical devices. Biolog
 y is impossibly complex\, adaptive\, and often unpredictable\, making it a
  uniquely challenging medium for engineering. As we push toward more ambit
 ious applications\, these challenges are becoming increasingly apparent. 
 \nIn this talk\, I will describe our efforts to address these limitations 
 by developing a new approach to engineering biology. Rather than modifying
  existing living cells\, we seek to construct encapsulated chemical micros
 ystems—synthetic cells—from first principles\, starting from molecular
  building blocks. We aim to programme these synthetic cells with behaviour
 s typically associated with living systems\, such as communication\, signa
 lling\, bioproduction\, motility and stimulus–response. I will also disc
 uss our microfluidic technologies for the scalable manufacture of syntheti
 c cells and related lipid-based drug delivery systems.\nSpeaker bio:\nYuva
 l Elani | About | Imperial College London
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/210546/synthetic-cells-as-
 an-alternative-paradigm-for-biological-engineering/
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