Vast potential exists for the development of novel, engineered platforms that manipulate
biology for the production of programmed advanced materials. Such systems would possess …

Synthetic biology is the discipline of engineering application-driven biological functionalities
that were not evolved by nature. Early breakthroughs of cell engineering, which were based …

A common theme in the self-organization of multicellular tissues is the use of cell-cell
signaling networks to induce morphological changes. We used the modular synNotch …

Natural biological materials exhibit remarkable properties: self-assembly from simple raw
materials, precise control of morphology, diverse physical and chemical properties, self …

During organismal development, cells undergo complex changes in shape whose causal
relationship to individual morphogenetic processes remains unclear. The modular nature of …

Synthetic multicellular systems hold promise as models for understanding natural
development of biofilms and higher organisms and as tools for engineering complex multi …

Significant efforts exist to develop living/non‐living composite materials—known as
biohybrids—that can support and control the functionality of biological agents. To enable the …

The rise of systems biology has ushered a new paradigm: the view of the cell as a system
that processes environmental inputs to drive phenotypic outputs. Synthetic biology provides …

INTRODUCTION Recent advances in lineage tracking using DNA-based barcoding
technologies have provided new insights into the developmental dynamics of cell …

The term liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) describes a class of materials that combine the
elastic entropy behaviour associated with conventional elastomers with the stimuli …