Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have been awarded funding today from

Are new approaches to recreating long-lost animals simply creating imitations?

Microbes could pump out oxygen on Mars.

The research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with dire consequences for human health and the environment.

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.

Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we’d hoped.

The walls of your house could someday be built with living bacteria. Synthetic biologists are engineering microbes into living materials that are cheap and sustainable.