We’ll build synthetic chromosomes for plants with new stress tolerance and nutrient traits. At Cai Lab, we’re rewiring DNA for more resilient, higher-value organisms. #synbio 🪴🥔🧬 manchester.ac.uk/about/news/fut…

Online now: Can protein expression be ‘solved’? dlvr.it/TL83yp

We are proud to invite applications for a new Google DeepMind Academic Fellowship, hosted by the Fleming Initiative at Imperial College London (Imperial College London), that supports groundbreaking research at the intersection of AMR and AI ⤵️ imperial.ac.uk/news/264673/fl…

We've been working on this resource for months: A VISUAL GUIDE TO GENOME EDITORS. Learn how tools like Cas9, Cas13, prime editors, and Bridge editors work - with diagrams! We hope this becomes a valuable resource for the biology community and students.

We made a huge poster that illustrates all of the major genome editing tools in one place. You can download a copy for free from the Asimov Press website. press.asimov.com/articles/crisp…

🔬 Save the Date: Engineering & Safeguarding Synthetic Life 📍 Manchester, UK | 🗓 17–18 September 2025 We are excited to announce a two-day international conference that brings together world-leading experts to explore the technical and societal dimensions of synthetic life.

How far can we push living systems—and who keeps them safe? 🧬 Join Manchester Institute of Biotechnology SynGenomics in Manchester, UK, 17–18 Sept 2025, for a 2-day dive into minimal cells, genome engineering, ethics & AI-driven biotech. Registration opens soon. #SyntheticBiology #Biosecurity #synbio

Look how cool my PI (and boss) is—Elected to Academia Europaea! Synthetic genomics is in very good hands here at ⁦Manchester Institute of Biotechnology⁩. Proud to be part of his team 🧬🚀 manchester.ac.uk/about/news/pro…

What to learn a bit about some of the topics explored at the Japan-UK Synthetic Biology Conference earlier this year? Then, check out our meeting report now out in ACS Synthetic Bio. Big thanks to all the authors and Patrick Cai and Masato Kanemaki for organising! doi.org/10.1021/acssyn…

Multi-Level Regulation in RNA-Protein Hybrid Incoherent Feedforward Loop Circuits for Tunable Pulse Dynamics in Escherichia coli biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio

An M13 phagemid toolbox for engineering tuneable DNA communication in bacterial consortia biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio

Structure-guided design of protein attachment points for functional augmentation of complex molecular machines biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio

Molecular Bonsai: Elucidating the design principles for engineering plant organ size biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio

We had a great dinner with the dinosaur - how cool is that?

🚨 Registration is now open for #ESSL2025! 📍17–18 Sept | Manchester, UK A global conference on synthetic & systems life, with talks on engineering biology, ethics, and emerging technologies. 🔗 essl2025.org Please act fast as we only have 70 tickets!

This semester, Ryan (Ryan Cochrane) and I joined the Researcher to Innovator programme at Alliance MBS, representing the Cai’s Lab. I pitched PRECIOUS — a synbio project to recover valuable elements from waste — and won the Innovation Enabler Award 🏆 #SynBio #UoM #Innovation

Early Career Researchers secure funding through the Researcher to Innovator (R2I) programme to support the commercial development of their ideas manchester.ac.uk/about/news/ear…

Thanks for this excellent three days of workshop! Full of incredible talks and experiments! We covered all the theoretical, technical and practical aspects for CRISPR-mediated editing and hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! Thanks to all that made it possible! #algae

Magnetically induced magnetosome chain (MAGiC): A biogenic magnetic-particle-imaging tracer with high performance and navigability | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Rewiring amino acid metabolism to boost nonnatural polyketide production in Yarrowia lipolytica biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio