A new perspective article by 57 international researchers, including Associate Professor Ebbe Sloth Andersen, outlines a roadmap for the synthesis of life. The paper explores key traits like resilience, sustainability, and evolution, and how synthetic life could revolutionize biotechnology, medicine, and materials science.

Emil Laust Kristoffersen, assistant professor at iNANO, was interviewed in the radio program "Vildt naturligt" about his book "Da livet opstod" and this research on artificial evolution and the conditions for the very first life.

A group of leading researchers has issued an unusual warning: Artificial so-called mirror organisms could pose a serious threat to existing life on Earth. The Danish newspaper “Information” has asked Assoc. Prof. Ebbe Sloth Andersen to guide them through the 200-page technical report published in December.

A big congratulations to Assistant Professor Emil Laust Kristoffersen from Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) for receiving a Villum Young Investigator grant.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Miguel Alexandre Ramos-Docampo from iNANO, who has been awarded an LF Experiment grant for his innovative project, Chiral Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Neural Stimulation in a 3D Model.

Congratulations to iNANO member Tenure-track Assistant Professor Julián Valero for receiving a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

Professor Brigitte Städler from iNANO and Associate Professor Christian Pascal Hirsch from Department of Mathematics receive a Villum Synergy grant for their interdisciplinary project which aims to generate novel insights into how colloidal systems can surpass Brownian motion and achieve coordinated locomotion.

Assistant Professor Emil Laust Kristoffersen from iNANO and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics has written a popular science book titled "Da livet opstod", released by Aarhus University Press.

The race to bring life to the laboratory is in full swing in both Denmark and abroad. A number of advances mean that several researchers now believe that we are close to having created artificial life. Read the news story (in Danish) at Videnskab.dk.

Life on Earth is likely to have arisen by an RNA molecule that started to make copies of itself. RNA researchers have succeeded in recreating an RNA copy machine and determining its structure through single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy. The research elucidates RNA’s role in self-replication and contributes to deeper understanding of the origin and evolution of life. The research also paves the way for using advanced RNA machines in medicine and biotechnology.