A synchronized quorum of genetic clocks

T Danino, O Mondragón-Palomino, L Tsimring, J Hasty - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The engineering of genetic circuits with predictive functionality in living cells represents a
defining focus of the expanding field of synthetic biology. This focus was elegantly set in …

A fast, robust and tunable synthetic gene oscillator

J Stricker, S Cookson, MR Bennett, WH Mather… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
One defining goal of synthetic biology is the development of engineering-based approaches
that enable the construction of gene-regulatory networks according to 'design specifications' …

A sensing array of radically coupled genetic 'biopixels'

A Prindle, P Samayoa, I Razinkov, T Danino… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Although there has been considerable progress in the development of engineering
principles for synthetic biology, a substantial challenge is the construction of robust circuits …

Synchronous long-term oscillations in a synthetic gene circuit

L Potvin-Trottier, ND Lord, G Vinnicombe, J Paulsson - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Synthetically engineered genetic circuits can perform a wide variety of tasks but are
generally less accurate than natural systems. Here we revisit the first synthetic genetic …

Synchrony and pattern formation of coupled genetic oscillators on a chip of artificial cells

AM Tayar, E Karzbrun, V Noireaux… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how biochemical networks lead to large-scale nonequilibrium self-
organization and pattern formation in life is a major challenge, with important implications for …

A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

MB Elowitz, S Leibler - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Networks of interacting biomolecules carry out many essential functions in living cells, but
the 'design principles' underlying the functioning of such intracellular networks remain poorly …

Multistability and clustering in a population of synthetic genetic oscillators via phase-repulsive cell-to-cell communication

E Ullner, A Zaikin, EI Volkov, J Garcia-Ojalvo - Phys Rev Lett, 2007 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
We show that phase-repulsive coupling eliminates oscillations in a population of synthetic
genetic clocks. For this, we propose an experimentally feasible synthetic genetic network …

Microbes made to order

D Ferber - 2004 - science.org
Blinkers on. A synthetic gene circuit that works like a clock turns on fluorescent proteins that
make these E. coli flash on and off. each other because they installed the wiring. But …

Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems

B Blasius, A Huppert, L Stone - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Population cycles that persist in time and are synchronized over space pervade ecological
systems, but their underlying causes remain a long-standing enigma,,,,,,,,,,. Here we …

Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock: repressilators coupled by quorum sensing

J Garcia-Ojalvo, MB Elowitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Diverse biochemical rhythms are generated by thousands of cellular oscillators that
somehow manage to operate synchronously. In fields ranging from circadian biology to …