+ Science article on "Rising stars: beating bacteria"
April 2008

+ Xconomy article on "Afferent's approach to stroke rehab is a noisy one"
March 2008

+ MIT News article on "Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance"
February 2008

+ BU Today article on "Turning off genes with the flick of a switch: ENG's Jim Collins develops new technology for medical research"
January 2008

+  Materials Today podcast with Jim Collins on synthetic biology
January 2008

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+ Kohanski MA, Dwyer DJ, Hayete B, Lawrence CA and Collins JJ. A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics. Cell 130: 797-810 (2007).
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+ Deans TL, Cantor CR and Collins JJ. A tunable genetic switch based on RNAi and repressor proteins for regulating gene expression in mammalian cells. Cell 130: 363-372 (2007). [pdf file]

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