London Biofoundry

Fungal frontiers for sustainability: unlocking the hidden kingdom

Fungi have repeatedly delivered transformative advances across industries, from medicine to food to materials, yet these breakthroughs have emerged from a narrow base of organisms and well-studied systems. Although mycology has taken a big leap forward in the past decades because...

An Inverse Design Workflow for Solvent Mixtures Based on Hansen Solubility Parameters

Abstract We present SolvPred, an open-source Python framework for inverse design of solvent mixtures based on Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs). SolvPred allows users to control the composition of solvent mixtures while setting essential experimental constraints. As a case stud...

Nonlocal dielectric response and screening in ionic liquids

The dielectric response of room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) plays a central role in charge screening within these strongly correlated ionic fluids and thereby governs ion transport, electrochemical kinetics, solubility, and related electrochemical phenomena. Here, we presen...

OligoSeq: Rapid nanopore-sequencing of single-stranded oligonucleotides

Nanopore-based DNA sequencing technology has achieved remarkable success in sequencing increasingly long DNA strands (e.g. over a million nucleotides long) for genomics research and biotechnology applications. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for DNA olig...

Navigating regulatory fragmentation in the convergence of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and automation

The convergence of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation (SynBioxAI) creates research activities that simultaneously engage biosecurity, AI governance, export control, and data sovereignty frameworks – none of which are designed for convergent science. W...

How Microscale Flowand Vapor Transport Shape NewParticle Formation and Growth

Abstract Accurate simulation of atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) remains limited because large-scale models cannot resolve aerosol processes at fine spatial scales, while detailed microphysics models assume spatially homogeneous conditions. Here we use a high-resolution t...