Bacterial synthetic biology articles within Nature

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• News & Views | 04 January 2012

  Bacteria collaborate to sense arsenic

  A method developed to allow rapid communication between bacterial cells across long distances enables the cells to detect arsenic collectively, and to report it as an oscillatory output. See Article p.39

  • Christopher A. Voigt

• Research Highlights | 25 May 2011

  Bacterial chemical factories

• News Feature | 03 November 2010

  Genomics: DNA's master craftsmen

  Behind the walls of the J. Craig Venter Institute, Ham Smith and Clyde Hutchison quietly worked to bring a synthetic cell to life.

  • Roberta Kwok

• News | 20 May 2010

  Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome

  A fully synthesized genome transforms one species of bacterium into another.

  • Alla Katsnelson