BiotechDecember 1, 2016
Cells That Compute Come Closer to Reality
Synthetic biologists are close to putting living cells to work diagnosing human diseases and repairing environmental damage
Stories by Timothy K. Lu
Timothy K. Lu is an associate professor leading the Synthetic Biology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which integrates memory and computational circuits in living cells, applies synthetic biology to important medical and industrial problems, and builds living biomaterials. He is a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award, among others. In 2014 he co-founded the synthetic biology start-up Synlogic.
BiologyApril 1, 2016
Cells That Compute Come Closer to Reality
Synthetic biologists are close to putting living cells to work diagnosing human diseases and repairing environmental damage