Synthetic biologists engineer yeast cells to act like analog-to-digital converters.

Results from their novel research into ways that engineered gene circuits interact with biological host cells have been published this week in the scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology.

Genetic switch underlies noisy cell division: 'Bimodal' signal determines a cell's get-up and go Date: September 27, 2010 Source: Duke University Summary: While scientists have spent the past 40 ...

An artificial protein switch can build biologic circuits, and it works in yeast and mammal cells.

Letter Published: 28 April 2013 The Cdk1–APC/C cell cycle oscillator circuit functions as a time-delayed, ultrasensitive switch Qiong Yang & James E. Ferrell Jr Nature Cell Biology 15, 519–525 ...

Researchers have found a way to short-circuit the "immortality switch" that cancer cells use to divide indefinitely.