School of Chemistry

Woolfson group research contributes to synthetic biology toolkit

20 July 2012

Cover story for Dek Woolfson's research group
Dek Woolfson's group, in collaboration with Leo Brady and Paula Booth (Biochemistry), have published a set of designed protein molecules that they believe will for the basis of a toolkit for the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Their work made the cover of the new American Chemical Society journal ACS Synthetic Biology.  This cover reflects a central tenet of synthetic biology: The hypothesis that biological components can be refined to give a toolkit of building blocks which may be used in a modular plug-and-play fashion.