Microbial consortia have been used in biotechnology processes, including fermentation,
waste treatment, and agriculture, for millennia. Today, synthetic biologists are increasingly …

Synthetic biology uses living cells as the substrate for performing human-defined
computations. Many current implementations of cellular computing are based on the …

Communities of microbes play important roles in natural environments and hold great
potential for deploying division-of-labor strategies in synthetic biology and bioproduction …

In the three decades since pluripotent mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were first described,
they have been derived and maintained by using various empirical combinations of feeder …

Advancing synthetic biology to the multicellular level requires the development of multiple
cell-to-cell communication channels that propagate information with minimal signal …

In nature, quorum sensing is one of the mechanisms bacterial populations use to
communicate with their own species or across species to coordinate behaviours. For the last …

There is no design template more important than DNA. Within the sequences of this
exquisite substance lie the design plans for each of us and for every living organism …

Microbes in diverse natural communities communicate via quorum sensing (QS) signals that
act as microbial languages. QS-based communications have been reconstructed in two …

While noise is generally associated with uncertainties and often has a negative connotation
in engineering, living organisms have evolved to adapt to (and even exploit) such …

We address the problem of regulating and kee** at a desired balance the relative
numbers between cells exhibiting a different phenotype within a monostrain microbial …