New Preprint!! @alex_gonzadel accomplished a major feat on this one: ported retron recombineering, which we love so much in E. coli, into 14 new bacterial species via a massive collaborative effort involving 9 labs! https://t.co/EtUEe3ZYvk

🚀 Great news for our lab! We’ve received a €2.5M EIC Transition Grant to advance #Synflora, an innovative biotech treatment for acne. By engineering skin bacteria to release beneficial molecules, we aim to revolutionize dermatology! 🔬✨

An engineered commensal bacterium delivers brain-targeted therapeutics via intranasal administration in mice. https://t.co/QR9zJBBizR #NBThighlight

💡What if bacteria on your skin could be reprogrammed to improve skin health?💡 For scientist @NastassiaKn synthetic biology isn’t just about research – it’s about solving real problems at a microscopic level to improve lives. Read full interview here: https://t.co/dY1FtUeLPJ

Thank you @UPFbiomed for this recognition!

Our second book is now available for pre-order. 🎉 Embracing the book's technology theme, we did something special: We encoded the entire book into DNA & packaged it into stainless steel capsules, where it will live for tens of thousands of years. 1,000 copies were made... 🧵

Can degraded ecosystems facing tipping points be rescued using synthetic biology? In our new paper with @VictorVmaull we show how a new class of "emergent engineering" can do it by havig biodiversity on our side https://t.co/rDmQhHDp5B @ftmaestre @vdlorenzo_CNB @BlaiVidiella

🎓 Eight doctoral students from the PhD Programme in #Biomedicine will receive the @UPFBarcelona Doctoral School PhD Extraordinary Award Congratulations to you all! 👏🏽💐💫 Have a look at their projects following this thread 👇🏽 👉🏽 https://t.co/YrdR288YOr

Allying with skin bacteria to treat pathologies 🦠💊 In this short video, researcher @NastassiaKn explains the latest advances in the @UPFbiomed Translational Synthetic Biology Laboratory in the creation of living pills. https://t.co/JKvm5yf5ru

Lovelock-Margulis ideas on the Earth as a self-regulating system can be tested, and we discuss it in our latest paper: A Synthetic Microbial Daisyworld. @jordiplam, N. Conde @ricard_sole @RSocPublishing https://t.co/9uny6fXUim

Interesting approach for acne treatment: engineer bacteria to work like Accutane, but locally (and without all the nasty side effects)! Modified C. Acnes bacteria secrete NGAL to kill sebocytes & thus sebum production. They engraft on mice skin & produce NGAL there.

@marcguellc @NastassiaKn @Synbio_Lab_UPF @UPFbiomed @idibell_cat @UniBarcelona @CRGenomica @icreacommunity @lunduniversity @AarhusUni_int Smart skin bacteria are able to secrete and produce molecules to treat acne #NBTintheNews via @UPFBarcelona https://t.co/ywqG0pufEo

Today, we are excited to share with you our most recent work in @NatureBiotech about domesticating C. acnes, a skin microbe, as a production and delivery shuttle for therapy. Want to know more?🪡🧵

Delivery of a sebum modulator by an engineered skin microbe in mice https://t.co/9LRLUEwFnn

@marcguellc @UPFBarcelona @UPFbiomed

Unbelievably happy to share our most recent publication in #NatureBiotechnology, where we show the the use of an engineered skin microbe (Cutibacterium acnes) as a potential therapy against acne vulgaris. Hope you enjoy the read:

🦠🧬Smart skin bacteria are able to secrete and produce molecules to treat acne New research by @Synbio_Lab_UPF with @NastassiaKn and @marcguellc manages to edit the genome of Cutibacterium acnes to secrete and produce the NGAL protein to treat acne. 👉🏽 https://t.co/gKNuX6Czgp