Development and Pattern Formation (Microbes as Machines)

Development and Pattern Formation (Microbes as Machines)

Example of a logic gate from [1].

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These gates are perhaps the farthest away from any natural counterpart and are thus likely to occupy synthetic and systems biologists in the years to come [2].

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3. Use of quorum sensing circuits to make 2D patterns of E. coli.

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5. Wahl, M. E., Murray, A. W. (2015) Multicellularity Makes Somatic Differentiation Evolutionarily Stable bioRxiv preprint