Synthetic Biology in Cambridge

kings100b Research activities and studentship opportunities at the University of Cambridge. There is an index of research groups engaged in Synthetic Biology related work, with funding news and resources for people considering work in Cambridge. See a collection of web sites with extensive local information.

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Synbio news:

22 Nov 2009

Quiet gene circuit is more fragile than its noisy peer.

Quiet gene circuit more fragile than its noisy peer.
 Cell. 2009 Oct 30;139(3):460-1.
Bollenbach T, Kishony R.
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue,
Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Why is a particular architecture for a pathway chosen over seemingly equivalent
alternatives? Cağatay et al. (2009) use a synthetic biology approach to show that
fluctuations--or noise--in protein levels may play a key role in determining
which network design is selected during evolution.

Comment on:
    Cell. 2009 Oct 30;139(3):512-22.

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