https://phys.org/news/2018-05-photosynthetic-artificial-cells.html

The research is published in Nature Biotechnology.

"This research, part of a rich collaboration between Harvard and Sogang University, opens up several different fronts on what could be done at the cellular level," said Kit Parker, the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and co-principle investigator of the project. "We have activated metabolic activity with light, built an on-demand protein network in a living cell and packaged all of the components required to do this into one cell."