Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

Single-molecule multi-colour fluorescence microscopy allowed the Duss Group at EMBL Heidelberg to capture a movie showing interactions between bacterial RNA polymerase (labelled with the pink sphere) ...

Just like workers need the right environment to efficiently perform their tasks, proteins require placement within specific cellular compartments to function properly. Therefore, understanding the ...

Like workers at a factory or office, proteins in a cell must be in the right department to do their jobs. But scientists have yet to fully map the cell’s organization, much less determine how these ...

Single-cell analysis is a new and rapidly growing field that is shedding new insight into the cellular mechanisms behind the pathogenesis and treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Cells, even ...

The Promise of Synthetic CellsSynthetic biology aims to engineer artificial systems that replicate the behavior of living cells. These ...