2013 MIT Technology Review article on "Synthetic Biology Could Speed Flu Vaccine Production" May 2013 The Boston Globe article on "MIT summit to explore new approach to diseases" May 2013 Nature Biotechnology interview with Jim Collins April 2013 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Research Highlights on "Boosting antibiotic activity via ROS" March 2013 News at Princeton article on "Bacterial byproduct offers route to avoiding antibiotic resistance" March 2013 Futurity article on "Antibiotics work better when germs self-destruct" March 2013 Discover article on "Better nature" March 2013 ACS Chemical Biology Spotlight on "Manipulating microbial metabolism" March 2013 Layman's Terms Media article on "Scientists one step closer to deafeating ‘Superbug’ MRSA" March 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education article on "Constructing synthetic biology, one breadboard at a time" March 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education article on "When a scientific metaphor becomes a burden" March 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education article on "Synthetic biology comes down to earth" March 2013 SciBX piece on "Sensitizing bacteria to antibiotics by increasing ROS production" February 2013 Wired article on "Can you feel me now? The sensational rise of haptic interfaces" February 2013 Nature News article on "How to turn living cells into computers" February 2013 Nature Biotechnology News and Views article on "Discovery of antibiotic adjuvants" February 2013 Harvard Gazette article on "Winning war against 'superbugs'" February 2013 Science Business article on "Modeling, biotechnology boost antibiotic impact on pathogens" February 2013 Infection Control Today article on "Scientists notch a win in the war against superbugs" February 2013 Futurity article on "'Side-kick' drugs could improve antibiotics" January 2013 BioWorld article on "Antibiotic helpers for resistant, persistent bugs" January 2013 The Boston Globe article on "BU researchers give antibiotics a 'helper' to fight infections" January 2013 The Boston Globe article on "New approach identifies sidekick drug to help antibiotics defeat infections" January 2013 Science News article on "Factory of life" January 2013 Nature Methods article on "Streamlined engineering for synthetic biology" January 2013 2012 Biotechniques article on "Hot-wiring cells" December 2012 Nature Methods article on "Modular gene-circuit design takes two steps forward" November 2012 BioTechniques article on "Cells that won't go away" October 2012 BioTechniques interview with Jim Collins October 2012 Nature Immunology article on "The Foxp3 interactome: a network perspective of T-reg cells" October 2012 Bostonia feature on synthetic biology October 2012 Nature Medicine article on "The new drug circuit" October 2012 Nature Methods article on "Programming transcription" September 2012 Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights: "Expanding the engineer's toolkit" September 2012 Nature Medicine News Feature on "Turning a new phage" September 2012 Nature Education Scitable blog Bio 2.0 post on "Modular transcription factors for eukaryotic synthetic biology" August 2012 i09 article on "Breakthrough 'genetic circuits' bring us closer to synthetic human cells" August 2012 MIT News article on "The wisdom of crowds" August 2012 NextBigFuture article on "19 new transcription factors break bottleneck that limited synthetic biology complexity" August 2012 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News highlight on "Synthetic biology expands beyond bacteria" August 2012 KurzweilAI article on "Expanding synthetic biology’s toolkit for creating genetic circuits" August 2012 Quantum Day article on "Designing circuits using synthetic biology" August 2012 MIT News article on "Researchers build a toolbox for synthetic biology" August 2012 Of Bacteria and Men blog post on "Indole teaches persistence to bacteria" July 2012 Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights: "Stress makes cells suicidal" July 2012 Wall Street Journal article on "Studying how body rhythms help diagnose diseases" July 2012 Technology Review featured story on "Biology's master programmers" July/August 2012 Molecular Cell Previews article on "When death was young: an ancestral apoptotic network in bacteria" June 2012 IEEE Lifesciences Newsletter article on "Building a language to program cells" May 2012 Nature Education Scitable blog Bio 2.0 post on "High-level control of synthetic systems" May 2012 Nature SciBX piece on "Bacterial infection and DNA repair" May 2012 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News article on "Synthetic biology defined by interdisciplinarity" May 2012 Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlights: "From indolence to persistence" May 2012 Chemical & Engineering News article on "Common antibiotic mechanism shown" April 2012 Medical News Today featured article on "Antibiotics kill bacteria by damaging their DNA" April 2012 Softpedia News on "Study reveals how antibiotics work" April 2012 MIT News article on "Pinpointing how antibiotics work" April 2012 Nature Medicine Research Highlights: New from NPG April 2012 Science Editor's Choice: "Bacteria hedge their bets" April 2012 Chemical & Engineering News Science and Technology Concentrate on "Indole triggers bacterial resistance" March 2012 Nature Research Highlights: "Bacteria signal to survive" March 2012 Nature Asia-Pacific Research Highlight on "E. coli neighborhood watch" March 2012 TechCentral article on "Synthetic biology: genetic engineering on steroids" March 2012 Nature Outlook Q&A with Jim Collins on "Synthetic biology" March 2012 The Washington Post feature on "Top 10 emerging technologies for 2012" February 2012 Nature Education Scitable blog Bio 2.0 post on "Synthetic biology is on its way to treating human disease" January 2012 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 Nature SciBX piece on "Using sugar to improve aminoglycoside killing of persistent bacterial infections" 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