• Proto Magazine article on Synthetic Biology
    Summer 2009

  • Nature Methods Research Highlights article on "Network countdown"
    August 2009
  • Wall Street Journal article on "Programming cells to do the work"
    July 2009

  • Jim Collins' Nature Journal Club article on "A bioengineer gets schooled by E. coli"
    July 2009

  • Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights article on "Making cells count"
    July 2009

  • Nature Chemical Biology Research Highlights article on "Easy as 1,2,3"
    July 2009

  • Jim Collins on BBC's Americana
    July 2009

  • Christian Science Monitor article on "Scientists turn living cells into clocks"
    June 2009

  • Discovery Channel story on "Bacteria cells programmed to count"
    June 2009

  • Science News article on "Engineeered DNA counts it out"
    May 2009

  • New Scientist article on "Counting cells could trigger their own destruction"
    May 2009

  • Wired Science article on "Cellular counter brings computer programming to life"
    May 2009

  • Science Perspective article on "It's the DNA that counts"
    May 2009

  • MIT news story on "Engineered circuits can count cellular events"
    May 2009

  • Nature Reviews Genetic Research Highlights article on "Towards off-the-shelf networks"
    May 2009

  • Nature Biotechnology News & Views article on "Overpowering the component problem"
    May 2009

  • Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article on "Practical applications of systems biology"
    May 2009

  • Technology Review article on "Brewing with synthetic biology"
    April 2009

  • The Scientist article on "Plug and play genes"
    April 2009

  • Jim Collins on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow
    April 2009

  • HHMI News Story on "Plug and play comes to synthetic biology"
    April 2009

  • Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights article on "Engineered phage foil antibiotic resistance"
    April 2009

  • Focus article on "Bacterial viruses boost antibiotic action"
    April 2009

  • Jim Collins on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow
    March 2009

  • Nature news story on "Engineered viruses fight bacteria"
    March 2009

  • MIT news story on "Engineered viruses can help fight antibiotic resistance"
    March 2009

  • Discovery Tech: "How would you explain synthetic biology to Darwin?"
    February 2009

  • Nature Chemical Biology Research Highlights article on "Antibiotics do double time"
    January 2009

  • Nature Research Highlights article on "Systems biology: radical methods"
    November 2008

  • Tim Lu's synthetic biology work wins Grand Prize, Collegiate Inventors Competition
    November, 2008

  • HHMI News Story on "The path to self-destruction:how antibiotics kill bacteria"
    November 2008

  • BU Today article on "At the old ball game"
    September 2008

  • 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

  • Chemical and Engineering News article on "2007 Chemistry Highlights"
    December 2007

  • BU Today article on "Graduate student invents gene regulator"
    October 2007

  • Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights article on "Antibiotics share mode of action"
    October 2007

  • Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights article on "Anti-infectives: antibiotics and death - the Fenton connection"
    October 2007

  • NatureNews & Views article on "The complexities of antibiotics"
    October 2007

  • Forum for Global Health Protection article on "Antibiotics share a common deadly pathway"
    September 2007

  • Nature Research Highlights article on "Radical weapons"
    September 2007

  • New England Cable News video on "Scientific Development from a BU Start-Up"
    September 2007

  • Cell podcast with Jim Collins on recent antibiotics work
    September 2007

  • Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article on "Method to enhance lethality of bactericidal antibiotics against superbugs uncovered"
    September 2007

  • Chemical and Engineering News article on "All roads lead to hydroxyl radicals"
    September 2007

  • Cell Previews article on "On the road to bacterial cell death"
    September 2007

  • The Scientist article on "Antibiotics share killing mechanism"
    September 2007

  • Nature article on "Radicals unite antibiotics"
    September 2007

  • Nature Methods Research Highlights article on "Switching genes off - all the way"
    September 2007

  • Nature Reviews Genetics Research Highlights article on "(Truly) on and off at the flick of a switch"
    September 2007

  • The Scientist article on "New molecular switch for genes"
    July 2007

  • Nature Research Highlights article on "Film ends badly"
    July 2007

  • MSNBC article on "Scientists engineer viruses to destroy bacteria"
    July 2007

  • New York Times article on "Genetic engineers who don't just tinker"
    July 2007

  • New Scientist article on "Slimebusting virus could clean medical kit"
    July 2007

  • Technology Review article on "Blasting biofilms with viruses: Specially tailored viruses could eradicate chronic bacterial infections"
    July 2007

  • Science News article on "Biowarfare: engineered virus can invade bacterial film"
    June 2007

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institude Research News highlights "Bacterial biofilms no match for engineered virus"
    June 2007

  • Nature Methods Research Highlights article on "Unraveling transcriptional networks"
    March 2007

  • Nature Reviews Genetics Research Highlights article on "Gene expression: benefit of noise"
    February 2007

  • Technology Review article on "Harnessing the power of bacteria"
    January 2007

  • USA Today article on "Tools help seniors be independent"
    August 2006

  • Discovery Channel Canada video on "Insoles to keep you upright"
    January 2006
  • IEEE Spectrum Editor's Blog on "Feel the Noise"
    November 2005

  • Op-Ed in the New York Times
    September 2005

  • Scientific American article on "In the Business of Synthetic Life"
    April 2005
  • IEEE Spectrum article on "Good Vibrations"
    April 2005
  • Trends in Biotechnology article on "Engineering Regulatory RNAs"
    March 2005

  • Trends in Biotechnology article on "Rewiring the Cell"
    November 2004

  • Nature Biotechnology News & Views article on "Custom Design of Metabolism"
    July 2004

  • Trends in Biotechnology article on "Synthetic Biology Evolves
    July 2004

  • First Annual Conference on Synthetic Biology
    June 2004 at MIT

  • Scientific American article on "Synthetic Life"
    April 2004

  • Science article on "Microbes Made to Order"
    January 2004

  • Nature News & Views article on "Medical Technology: Balancing the Unbalanced"
    October 2003