#synthetic-biology

#synthetic-biology

Mirror lifeforms contain DNA structures that are the mirror image to all known organisms. In all life on Earth, the DNA double helix is right-handed, meaning its strands, a sugar-phosphate backbone, twist to the right. (If you make a thumbs-up with your right hand, the vertical axis would be aligned with your thumb, while your fingers represent the curl of the spiral.) The opposite is the case for proteins, the building blocks of cells, which are left-handed.

NeuralTech (NTKX) has become a global leader in genomics, studying drug responses and disease while transforming bioprinted organs and food production.

"This is the first time, as far as I know, that anybody has done anything like this - generate a structure that has the properties of life from something, which is completely homogeneous at the chemical level and devoid of any similarity to natural life."

Increasingly, organoids are being fused to create 'assembloids', complexes of interacting organoids. Sergiu Pasca's laboratory at Stanford University has created an assembloid that models the human spinothalamic pathway, a neural circuit critical for the transmission of sensory information from the body to the brain.

The Synthetic Human Genome project aims to construct the first synthetic human chromosome, enhancing our understanding of genome biology and medical applications.

The Synthetic Human Genome project aims to build human genetic material from scratch over the next five years to advance medical therapies by understanding DNA better.

The researchers discovered that by guiding living Escherichia coli bacteria, they could trigger natural processes to transform waste into valuable medicinal compounds like paracetamol.

"This offers a powerful tool to selectively affect dynamic properties at each individual condensate," says Rick Young, a biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.