Synthetic biologists engineer yeast cells to act like analog-to-digital converters.

Letter Published: 28 April 2013 The Cdk1–APC/C cell cycle oscillator circuit functions as a time-delayed, ultrasensitive switch Qiong Yang & James E. Ferrell Jr Nature Cell Biology 15, 519–525 ...

If researchers succeed, it will make it relatively easy to produce cells that seem indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, and that are genetically matched to individual patients. There are ...