Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Information theory in biology category.
And it gets even better..
Synthetic Gene Networks that Count. From Science Magazine.
Synthetic gene networks can be constructed to emulate digital circuits and devices, giving one the ability to program and design cells with some of the principles of modern computing, such as counting. A cellular counter would enable complex synthetic programming and a variety of biotechnology applications. Here, we report two complementary synthetic genetic counters in Escherichia coli that can count up to three induction events: the first, a riboregulated transcriptional cascade, and the second, a recombinase-based cascade of memory units. These modular devices permit counting of varied user-defined inputs over a range of frequencies and can be expanded to count higher numbers.
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Interactions between zebrafish pigment cells responsible for the generation of Turing patterns
Have I also mentioned that I am interested in ways that information is formed and displayed in nature? This is a great article about zebra fish patterns and their relation to Turning patterns. [From the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)]
This is yet another great article I found via the Life Inspired blog.
