Synthetic biology could enable new types of programmable therapeutics. Our new preprint introduces synthetic protein circuits that selectively trigger cell death in Ras-mutant cancer cells, with interesting advantages compared to existing approaches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to Dhiraj and the other amazing fellows

My first project in the @elowitzlab.bsky.social is finally out in @cellpress.bsky.social! We explore how competitive, "many-to-many" dimerization allows complex, multi-input, and cell-type-specific biochemical computations🧵↓ doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

New study in @cellpress.bsky.social by Allen Distinguished Investigator @elowitzlab.bsky.social and collaborators explores the versatility of protein dimers. #FrontierScience 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I really enjoyed reading this preprint, congrats @elowitzlab.bsky.social and team!

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Really enjoying Uri Alon’s characteristically wonderful lectures on aging: www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/cou...

Could one envision a synthetic receptor technology that is fully programmable, able to detect diverse extracellular antigens – both soluble and cell-attached – and convert that recognition into a wide range of intracellular responses, from gene expression and real-time fluorescence to modulation..

"The lives of cells, recorded"--our new review on genomic recording systems and how they can reveal the dynamics of multicellular development. A pleasure to work on this with amazing colleagues from the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for new Bioengineering and Systems Biology faculty at University of Chicago, please apply and spread the news: apply.interfolio.com/157759 #science #faculty #biology #engineering #academia #technology #research #phd