In this episode, we learn all about membranes and the Build-a-Cell project with Dr. Neha Kamat. You can find out more about Dr. Kamat's research at her lab website, https://www.nehakamat.com/. Here's a link to the Build-a-Cell website if you're interested in the cool stuff going on in this project: http://buildacell.io/engineering/. Intro music by Chris Zabriskie, "Is That You or Are You You?", modified under an Attribution license, http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/04_-_Is_That_You_or_Are_You_You.

New year, new GeneMods season! Join us as we discuss all the syn bio that happened in 2018, including CRISPR babies, Frances Arnold's Nobel Prize, massive leaps in protein engineering, and local Northwestern and Chicago news as well. ****Important note, the views expressed in this and all episodes belong to Isaac, Adam, me, and other guests on the show and do not reflect the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern.

GUESS WHO'S BACK! After some long-neglected editing, we bring you some very belated news from July 2018. The news is old but hopefully still entertaining. Isaac was out this month, so we were instead joined by Kirsten Jung, a graduate student in the Lucks Lab at Northwestern. Here are some links to the papers and news we discuss in the episode: Gene-edited monkeys offer hope for heart disease patients: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/gene-edited-monkeys-offer-hope-heart-disease-patients CRISPR plants now subject to tough GM laws in European Union https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05814-6 CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing induces a p53-mediated DNA damage response https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0049-z Engineering circular RNA for potent and stable translation in eukaryotic cells https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05096-6 CRISPR gene editing produces unwanted DNA deletions https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05736-3 Last Week Tonight gene editing segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJm8PeWkiEU