A major goal of synthetic biology is to understand the transition between non-living matter
and life. The bottom-up development of an artificial cell would provide a minimal system with …

Amphotericin B is an antibiotic used as the “gold standard” in the treatment of life-
threatening fungal infections. Several molecular mechanisms have been proposed to …

Droplet spreading and penetration are essential steps to improve the utilization rate of
pesticides spraying on superhydrophobic foliage. However, due to the low surface energy …

Synthetic cells, also referred to as protocells, artificial cells, or minimal cells, are a type of
engineered entities that mimic the features of biological cells and are promising for …

A real-time and molecule-level monitoring of the interfacial dynamic interactions between
molecules and a cell membrane is of vital importance. Herein, taking TAT, one of the most …

In the present contribution, on the basis of a spectroscopic and microscopic investigation,
the characterization and photophysics of various assemblies of oleic acid/oleate solution at …

One of the congenital flaws of metabolism, phenylketonuria (PKU), is known to be related to
the self-assembly of toxic fibrillar aggregates of phenylalanine (Phe) in blood at elevated …

In the present contribution, we investigate the interactions of lipid bilayer membranes of
different charges and different phase states with aliphatic amino acids of varying charge …

The prolonged intake of the artificial sweetener aspartame is known to have deleterious
effects. Our biophysical experimentations indicate that aspartame forms self-assembled …

Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a choline-containing dietary supplement obtained from red
meat, egg, and other animal resources, on excess accumulation is known to cause …