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James J Collins

MIT; Wyss Institute, Harvard; Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Verified email at mit.edu
Cited by 126709

How antibiotics kill bacteria: from targets to networks

MA Kohanski, DJ Dwyer, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
Antibiotic drug–target interactions, and their respective direct effects, are generally well
characterized. By contrast, the bacterial responses to antibiotic drug treatments that …

Stochasticity in gene expression: from theories to phenotypes

M Kaern, TC Elston, WJ Blake, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
Genetically identical cells exposed to the same environmental conditions can show
significant variation in molecular content and marked differences in phenotypic …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end design of wearable sensors

HC Ates, PQ Nguyen, L Gonzalez-Macia… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Wearable devices provide an alternative pathway to clinical diagnostics by exploiting
various physical, chemical and biological sensors to mine physiological (biophysical and/or …

[HTML][HTML] The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

…, C Henderson, D Gordon, K Auger, D Wright, J Collins… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Zebrafish have become a popular organism for the study of vertebrate gene function,. The
virtually transparent embryos of this species, and the ability to accelerate genetic studies by …

[HTML][HTML] Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

DF Santomauro, AMM Herrera, J Shadid, P Zheng… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Before 2020, mental disorders were leading causes of the global health-related
burden, with depressive and anxiety disorders being leading contributors to this burden. The …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

H Wang, KR Paulson, SA Pease, S Watson, H Comfort… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …

A practical method for calculating largest Lyapunov exponents from small data sets

MT Rosenstein, JJ Collins, CJ De Luca - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1993 - Elsevier
Detecting the presence of chaos in a dynamical system is an important problem that is
solved by measuring the largest Lyapunov exponent. Lyapunov exponents quantify the …

Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2

JS Gootenberg, OO Abudayyeh, JW Lee… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Rapid, inexpensive, and sensitive nucleic acid detection may aid point-of-care pathogen
detection, genotyping, and disease monitoring. The RNA-guided, RNA-targeting clustered …

Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli

TS Gardner, CR Cantor, JJ Collins - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
It has been proposed that gene-regulatory circuits with virtually any desired property can be
constructed from networks of simple regulatory elements. These properties, which include …

[PDF][PDF] Highly efficient reprogramming to pluripotency and directed differentiation of human cells with synthetic modified mRNA

L Warren, PD Manos, T Ahfeldt, YH Loh, H Li, F Lau… - Cell stem cell, 2010 - cell.com
Clinical application of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is limited by the low efficiency
of iPSC derivation and the fact that most protocols modify the genome to effect cellular …