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Jeremy J Minty1, S Marjan Varedi K, Xiaoxia Nina Lin
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2300 Hayward, 3074 H.H. Dow, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Chemistry & Biology
|March 26, 2009
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In their new Cell paper, Cantone et al. (2009) present exciting results on constructing and utilizing a small synthetic gene regulatory network in yeast that draws from two rapidly developing fields of systems and synthetic biology.
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