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James J. Collins

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  700
Citations -  105255

James J. Collins is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 151, co-authored 669 publications receiving 89476 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Collins include Baylor College of Medicine & University at Albany, SUNY.

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Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli

TL;DR: The construction of a genetic toggle switch is presented—a synthetic, bistable gene-regulatory network—in Escherichia coli and a simple theory is provided that predicts the conditions necessary for bistability.
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A practical method for calculating largest Lyapunov exponents from small data sets

TL;DR: A new method for calculating the largest Lyapunov exponent from an experimental time series is presented that is fast, easy to implement, and robust to changes in the following quantities: embedding dimension, size of data set, reconstruction delay, and noise level.
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A Common Mechanism of Cellular Death Induced by Bactericidal Antibiotics

TL;DR: The results suggest that all three major classes of bactericidal drugs can be potentiated by targeting bacterial systems that remediate hydroxyl radical damage, including proteins involved in triggering the DNA damage response, e.g., RecA.
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Stochasticity in gene expression: from theories to phenotypes

TL;DR: Stochasticity in gene expression can provide the flexibility needed by cells to adapt to fluctuating environments or respond to sudden stresses, and a mechanism by which population heterogeneity can be established during cellular differentiation and development.