Our research

The biology moonshot:
Understand it. Change it. Recreate it.

Areas

We are interested in areas that can fundamentally change how we understand or study biology.

Artificial cells

We design new life forms and de novo cell structures, towards the ultimate goal of synthetic biology is to create new species. Currently, we focus on filling the gap between pro- vs. eu-karyotic structures.

Lab in a cell

We develop the framework, techniques, and methodologies to program living cells to miniaturize, parallelize, and automate biological assays, in order to accelerate life sciences at a massive scale.

AI-aided research automation

We leverage artificial intelligence to copilot scientific discovery and research processes, both in designing experiments with language models, and using deep learning to process large wet-lab dataset.