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Can We Program Our Cells?

The Joy of Why

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Is There a Pattern of Gene Activation?

With an A and a B, I could make something that does what? AA, BB, or AB. So you had two of them and they could make three, can we say, cell types? There are three states. And the point is that those are stable so that if you perturb the cell away from it, perturb the level of A or B a little bit, it'll go right back. The rest of the cell is just keeping the lights on. Exactly. Well, your little synthetic circuit that you're playing with is doing its thing sort of in the background and this been the big complicated cell is like, never mind, I don't even care about that in

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