🍾 🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Isaac Justice for defending his PhD thesis, in which he demonstrated that two lipid species are sufficient (but not optimal) for life! @bcube-tud.bsky.social
James Saenz
🥳 A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We chemically minimized the membrane of the Minimal Cell...they survived, but with some interesting shapes, like this 'Death Star' phenotype @jcvi.bsky.social @jcv.bsky.social
James Saenz
🦠 Minimal Membranes for Minimal Cells 🦠! In our latest preprint, we introduce an approach to minimize and tune lipidome composition in mycoplasma and the Minimal Cell JCVI-Syn3A. tinyurl.com/53235uzt #Lipidtime @jcvi.bsky.social
James Saenz
Tuning and minimizing lipidome composition in Mycoplasma mycoides and the Minimal Cell JCVI-Syn3A https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563757v1
All cells are encapsulated by a lipid membrane which facilitates the interaction between life and it
