2011

  • Kyle Allison named to Forbes' "30 Under 30: Science" list
    December 2011

  • BostInno article on "Revolutionizing antibiotics"
    December 2011

  • ASBMB Today article on "Synthetic biology: edging toward the clinic"
    December 2011

  • Kyle Allison wins Collegiate Inventors Competition
    November 2011

  • Kyle Allison selected as finalist for the Collegiate Inventors Competition
    October 2011

  • Current Opinion in Microbiology Special Issue on Antibiotics
    October 2011

  • The Scientist article on "Tinkering with life"
    October 2011

  • The Scientist Infographic: Designing Genetic Circuits
    October 2011

  • Science podcast: interview with Jim Collins
    September 2011

  • Science editorial on "Synthetic biology"
    September 2011

  • Daily Health News article on "A sugar-coated pill that helps fight infection"
    August 2011

  • Footwear Insight article on the vibrating insole technology
    July/August 2011

  • Future Microbiology article on "The combination of sugar with antibiotics"
    July 2011

  • Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights on "Killing persisters while they sleep"
    July 2011

  • Future Microbiology editorial on "How antibacterials really work"
    June 2011

  • Nature Reviews Genetics "Synthetic Biology" poster
    June 2011

  • Microbe article on "Synthetic biology"
    June 2011

  • Wall Street Journal article on "Spoonful of sugar"
    June 2011

  • Nature Medicine News Feature on "Persistence may pay off for antibiotics innovators"
    June 2011

  • Nature SciBX article on "Sweetening antibiotic treatments"
    June 2011

  • Scientific American Podcast on "Sugar flushes out hidden microbes"
    May 2011

  • Time article on "Could a spoonful of sugar help the medicine work?"
    May 2011

  • Discover article on "Sugar helps antibiotics kill dug-in bacteria"
    May 2011

  • SmartPlanet article on "Could sugar help reduce persistent infections?"
    May 2011

  • The Guardian interview with Jim Collins
    May 2011

  • Geekosystem article on "New weapon against persistent bacterial infections"
    May 2011

  • UPI article on "Sugar enlisted to fight bacteria"
    May 2011

  • Insidermedicine video on "Sugar added to antibiotic treatment"
    May 2011

  • BU Today article on "Solution to stubborn bacterial infections might be sweet"
    May 2011

  • ITN article on "Sugar really makes the medicine 'go down'"
    May 2011

  • Chemistry World News on "Sugars recruited in fight against persistent infections"
    May 2011

  • TopNews Arab Emirates article on "Medicine work better if taken with sugar"
    May 2011

  • Marie Claire article on "Sugar makes medicine work better"
    May 2011

  • Daily Mail article on "A spoonful of sugar can help beat bugs"
    May 2011

  • The Times of India article on "Spoonful of sugar makes infections go down"
    May 2011

  • Boston Herald article on "Research sweet on sugar"
    May 2011

  • The Telegraph article on "Sugar makes the medicine work better"
    May 2011

  • Boston Herald article on "BU researchers add sugar to infection-fighting reciper"
    May 2011

  • My Health News Daily article on "Sugar helps antibiotics trick and kill deadly bacteria"
    May 2011

  • The Boston Globe article on "BU researchers deliver one-two punch against wily bacteria"
    May 2011

  • CommonHealth article on "A 'spoonful of sugar' could help antibiotics kill bugs"
    May 2011

  • Nature Technology Feature on "The next step for the synthetic genome"
    May 2011

  • Technology Review article on "Synthetic Cells"
    May 2011

  • Harvard Magazine article on "Designing from life"
    May 2011

  • Current Biology article on "Synthetic biology: modulating the MAP kinase module"
    April 2011

  • Science article on "Synthetic genomes: building a better bacterium"
    March 2011

  • Cell Special Issue on "Systems Biology"
    March 2011

  • Cell Podcast with Jim Collins
    March 2011

  • LiveScience ScienceLives article on "Bioengineering synthetic life"
    March 2011

  • Science & Vie article on "Bactéries: L'altruisme est leur arme secrète"
    February 2011

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education article on "Synthetic biology"
    January 2011

    2010

  • Lab's work on synthetic biology and cellular reprogramming highlighted in Science's "Breakthrough of the Year" issue
    December 2010

  • BBC Wildlife News of the Earth on "Bacterial sacrifice"
    November 2010

  • Boston Globe article on "Thrown off balance"
    November 2010

  • Scienceline article on "Bacterial mutants"
    November 2010

  • The Pennsylvania Gazette article on "The Presidential Bioethics Commission"
    November - December 2010

  • Cell Stem Cell Preview article on "Synthetic mRNAs"
    November 2010

  • Science News of the Week article on "New technique riPS open stem cell field"
    October 2010

  • Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights on "Bacterial charity work"
    October 2010

  • Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News article on "Finance and synthetic biology"
    October 2010

  • Genome Technology article on "The evolving human microbiome"
    October 2010

  • Nature web focus on "Biological noise"
    September 2010

  • Scientific American article on "Drug-resistant bacteria"
    September 2010

  • TheScientist article on "Nice bacteria finish last"
    September 2010

  • Discover article on "Hard living breeds superbugs"
    September 2010

  • Discover Blog article on "Charitable bacteria"
    September 2010

  • Science ScienceShot article on "Altruistic bacteria"
    September 2010

  • ScienceNews article on "Hints of altruism among bacteria"
    September 2010

  • Nature News and Views article on "Altruistic defence"
    September 2010

  • HHMI News article on "Bacterial charity work"
    September 2010

  • Chemical and Engineering News article on "Bacterial altruism"
    September 2010

  • USA Today article on "Altruistic bacteria"
    September 2010

  • Pharmacy Europe article on "Kamikaze bacteria"
    September 2010

  • The Daily Mail article on "'supermutant' bacteria"
    September 2010

  • LiveScience article on "Sharing antibiotic resistance"
    September 2010

  • Mother Nature Network article on "Bacteria sacrifice themselves for the good of the group"
    September 2010

  • Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights on "iPS cells from blood"
    August 2010

  • PNAS article on "Linking transcription"
    August 2010

  • Technology Review article on "A 'kill switch' for rogue microbes"
    August 2010

  • Disease Models and Mechanisms interview with James Collins
    July - August 2010

  • NCI Cancer Bulletin Spotlight on "Synthetic biology and cancer"
    July 2010

  • Yamanaka's Cell Stem Cell Preview article on "Patient-specific pluripotent stem cells"
    July 2010

  • Scientific American article on "Whatever doesn't kill you"
    June 2010

  • Nature Opinion articles on "Life after the synthetic cell"
    May 2010

  • Nucleic Acids Research Special Issue on Synthetic Biology
    May 2010

  • Vogue article on "Prime suspects: antibiotics"
    May 2010

  • ScienceWatch.com Fast Breaking Papers
    April 2010

  • Harvard Medicine article on "Smart science"
    Spring 2010

  • Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights on "Reactive resistance"
    April 2010

  • HFSP Journal Commentary on David Lorenz's PNAS paper
    April 2010

  • Environmental Health Perspectives article on "Synthetic biology"
    March 2010

  • BU Today article on "Do low-level antibiotics create mutant zoos?"
    March 2010

  • ASM Meet the Scientist podcast with Jim Collins
    March 2010

  • HHMI Bulletin interview with Jim Collins
    February 2010

  • Molecular Cell Previews article on "The fast track to multidrug resistance"
    February 2010

  • Science NOW article on "What doesn't kill microbes, makes them stronger"
    February 2010

  • The Atlantic article on "Feeding you, and bacteria too"
    February 2010

  • Science Signaling Editor's Choice: "A radical approach to resistance"
    February 2010

  • USA Today article on "A new theory of how low doses of antibiotics create antibiotic resistance"
    February 2010

  • Wired Science article on "Antibiotics breed superbugs faster than expected"
    February 2010

  • New Scientist article on "Superbugs blamed on shoddy repairs"
    February 2010

  • Chemical & Engineering News article on "A new facet of drug resistance"
    February 2010

  • Toronto Star article on "Free radicals may cause mutations that create superbugs"
    February 2010

  • Nature News and Views article on "Synchronized bacterial clocks"
    January 2010

  • Nature editorial "Ten years of synergy" on the first decade of synthetic biology
    January 2010

  • Nature feature on "Five hard truths for synthetic biology"
    January 2010

  • Nature web focus on "Synthetic biology"
    January 2010

  • Nature podcast "Oscillate wildly" on the birth of synthetic biology
    January 2010

    2009

  • Molecular Cell Previews article on "Hydroxyurea triggers cellular responses that actively cause bacterial cell death"
    December 2009

  • Katie Spina highlighted by Boston Magazine in "The doctors are in (progress)"
    December 2009

  • MIT Media article on "Drug kills cells through novel mechanism"
    December 2009

  • National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Synthetic Biology Conference podcasts
    November 2009

  • 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

    2008

  • 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

    2007

  • 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

  • Nature News & 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

    2006

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

  • Discovery Channel Canada video on "Insoles to keep you upright"
    January 2006

    2005

  • 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

    2004

  • 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

    2003

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