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Designing Genetic Circuits

Infographic: Designing Genetic Circuits View full size JPG | PDF Peter and maria hoey

Infographic: Designing Genetic Circuits
View full size JPG | PDF Peter and maria hoey

By Jef Akst | October 1, 2011

Near the turn of the millennium, James Collins and Stanislas Leibler independently undertook rather similar projects: design what would become synthetic biology’s seminal genetic circuits. And they came up with strikingly similar action plans—use E. coli to pair promoters with repressors that control one another’s behavior.

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