On Sept. 5, the Dogic lab’s active matter research was featured on the cover of the journal Science.  Dogic, with a team from Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Syracuse University, created a Frankenstein-like synthetic sac,  stitched together from different kinds of biomolecules, that can move and change shape on its own. It’s called an active nematic vesicle and it could be the first step towards building artificial cells.