The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost
indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

Advancing the spontaneous bottom-up construction of artificial cells with high organizational
complexity and diverse functionality remains an unresolved issue at the interface between …

A key challenge for the effective treatment of gastrointestinal diseases including
inflammatory bowel disease is to develop an orally administered drug delivery system …

The origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between
nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain …

Biocatalytic cascades guide complex, efficient and selective intracellular transformations.
These unique features originate from the spatial organization of the biocatalysts in confined …

The design and construction of synthetic therapeutic protocells capable of establishing
cognate chemical communication channels with living cells is an important challenge for …

Biological cells are highly organized, with numerous subcellular compartments.
Phosphorylation has been hypothesized as a means to control the assembly/disassembly of …

Polyelectrolyte complexation is critical to the formation and properties of many biological
and polymeric materials, and is typically initiated by aqueous mixing followed by fluid–fluid …

Although giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) have been extensively studied as synthetic cell-
like microcompartments, their applicability as cytomimetic models is severely compromised …