If we are ever to have a permanent presence on Mars, we will have to learn to build there. Shipping the material from Earth to build something as simple as a pressurized habitat is prohibitively expen...

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Site-selective bridging of cysteines and native disulfide bonds represents a powerful strategy for peptide and protein modification. However, most existing bis-electrophilic reagents rely on azide-alk...

It was great to host the Royal Society of Chemistry symposium this Monday, on “Integrating chemistry, engineering and biology to create the next generation of vaccines”. The title quote is from Neil K...

DNA origami scaffolds displaying HIV antigens stimulate focused antibody responses in mice

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Global health remains threatened by spillovers of zoonotic SARS-like betacoronaviruses (sarbecoviruses) that could be mitigated by a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine[1][1]. We described elicitation of potentl...

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

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Protein–antibody conjugates represent major advancements in targeted therapeutics. However, platforms enabling ‘off-the-shelf’ antibody conjugation are seldom reported. The SpyTag/SpyCatcher system, k...

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