Matthew Bennett, Andrew Hirning and Ye Chen, Rice University (IMAGE)

Rice University

Matthew Bennett, Andrew Hirning and Ye Chen, Rice University

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Rice University researchers, from left, synthetic biologist Matthew Bennett and graduate students Andrew Hirning and Ye Chen, have created multicellular circuits by programming bacteria to alter gene expression in an entire population.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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