Understanding the Rules of life: Building a Synthetic Cell
Although this proposal focuses on bio cellular components, the funding agency is concerned of the social and ethical dimensions and implications of such research.
(NSF 18-599) invites researchers to apply to participate in an interdisciplinary Ideas Lab focused on facilitating innovative research projects for designing, fabricating, and validating synthetic cells that express specified phenotypes at the interface between biological, mathematical, computer and physical sciences and engineering.
Deadline: December 28, 2018