Build to understand: synthetic approaches to biology

LZ Wang, F Wu, K Flores, YC Lai, X Wang - Integrative Biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In this review we discuss how synthetic biology facilitates the task of investigating genetic
circuits that are observed in naturally occurring biological systems. Specifically, we give …

Exit from quiescence displays a memory of cell growth and division

X Wang, K Fujimaki, GC Mitchell, JS Kwon… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Reactivating quiescent cells to proliferate is critical to tissue repair and homoeostasis.
Quiescence exit is highly noisy even for genetically identical cells under the same …

Network motifs modulate druggability of cellular targets

F Wu, C Ma, C Tan - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Druggability refers to the capacity of a cellular target to be modulated by a small-molecule
drug. To date, druggability is mainly studied by focusing on direct binding interactions …

Study Quiescence Heterogeneity by Coupling Single-Cell Measurements and Computer Modeling

JS Kwon, X Wang, G Yao - Cellular Quiescence: Methods and Protocols, 2018 - Springer
Single-cell measurements combined with mathematical modeling and computer simulations
are powerful tools for understanding and exploring dynamical behaviors of gene networks …