Synthetic biology is a broad field with a unifying theme of learning through building. At IUPAB2024 in Kyoto, Japan, five researchers gave lectures focusing on in vitro synthetic biology, where the built objects were not living cells but in vitro systems composed of biomolecules. The talks sparked lively discussions on the knowledge gained about living cells from in vitro reconstructions.
Keywords: Bottom-up biology; Cell-free protein synthesis; In vitro synthetic biology; Vesicles.
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