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
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
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