Organoids—cellular aggregates derived from stem or progenitor cells that recapitulate organ
function in miniature—are of growing interest in developmental biology and medicine …

Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained
momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials …

We report that the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (N-protein) undergoes liquid-liquid
phase separation (LLPS) with viral RNA. N-protein condenses with specific RNA genomic …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive biopolymers derived from human
elastin. Their unique properties—including lower critical solution temperature phase …

Short peptides are uniquely versatile building blocks for self-assembly. Supramolecular
peptide assemblies can be used to construct functional hydrogel biomaterials—an attractive …

Proteins and synthetic polymers that undergo aqueous phase transitions mediate self-
assembly in nature and in man-made material systems. Yet little is known about how the …

The design and construction of synthetic cells–human‐made microcompartments that mimic
features of living cells–have experienced a real boom in the past decade. While many efforts …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are a class of stimuli-responsive biopolymers inspired by
the intrinsically disordered domains of tropoelastin that are composed of repeats of the …

Proteins and synthetic polymers can undergo phase transitions in response to changes to
intensive solution parameters such as temperature, proton chemical potentials (pH), and …

Cononsolvency is an intriguing phenomenon where a polymer collapses in a mixture of
good solvents. This cosolvent-induced modulation of the polymer solubility has been …