Synthetic Biology Reveals New Insights into Cell Signaling (IMAGE)

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Synthetic Biology Reveals New Insights into Cell Signaling

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This image shows a synthetic reconstitution of phagocytosis. To bypass the physiological mechanisms that mediate the phagocytosis of an apoptotic cell (left), a host cell is engineered (right) using the minimal signaling components that are necessary for phagocytosis. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 9, 2016 issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.K. Kim at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Toward total synthesis of cell function: Reconstituting cell dynamics with synthetic biology."

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[Credit: Kim <i>et al</i>., <i>Science Signaling</i> (2016)]

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