A long-standing challenge in synthetic biology has been to create gene circuits that behave in predictable and robust ways. Mathematical modeling experts and experimental biologists have now created a ...

(Nanowerk News) Genetic systems run like clockwork, attuned to temperature, time of day and many other factors as they regulate living organisms. Scientists at Rice University and the University of ...

Top left: Fluorescence images from a time lapse experiment show how a periodically modulated concentration of the transcriptional inducer arabinose (red) entrains a synthetic genetic oscillator that ...

A specially designed microfluidic chamber reveals regular oscillations of gene expression in a bacterial population. [Jeff Hasty, Ph.D./UCSD] If a bacterial population is to meet fluctuating ...