His laboratory studies the dynamics of genetic circuits in individual living cells using synthetic biology, time-lapse microscopy, and mathematical modeling, with a particular focus on the way in which cells make use of noise to implement behaviors that would be difficult or impossible without it.
Recently, his lab has expanded their approaches beyond bacteria to include eukaryotic and mammalian cells.
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Li, Pulin; Markson, Joseph S.; Wang, Sheng; Chen, Siheng; Vachharajani, Vipul; Elowitz, Michael B. (April 5, 2018). "Morphogen gradient reconstitution reveals Hedgehog pathway design principles". Science. 360 (6388): 543–548. Bibcode:2018Sci...360..543L. doi:10.1126/science.aao0645. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 6516753. PMID 29622726. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516753
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