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ReviewNature communications2025

Intracellularly coupled oscillators for synthetic biology.

Gábor Holló, Jung Hun Park, Rose A Evard, Yolanda Schaerli

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Review in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gábor HollóDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. gabor.hollo@unil.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-4801
Jung Hun ParkDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-4132
Rose A EvardDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yolanda SchaerliDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. yolanda.schaerli@unil.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-7343

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 10005200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biology aims to engineer or re-engineer living systems. To achieve increasingly complex functionalities, it is beneficial to use higher-level building blocks. In this study, we focus on oscillators as such building blocks, propose oscillator-based circuit designs and model the interactions of intracellularly coupled oscillators. We classify these oscillators on the basis of coupling strength: independent, weakly or strongly, and deeply coupled. We predict a wide range of dynamic behaviors to arise in these systems, such as the beat phenomenon, amplitude and frequency modulation, period doubling, higher-period oscillations, chaos, resonance, and synchronization, with the aim of guiding future experimental work in bacterial synthetic biology. Finally, we outline potential applications, including oscillator-based computing that integrates processing and memory functions, offering multistate and nonlinear processing capabilities.

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Biological ClocksSynthetic BiologyModels, Biological

Identifiers

PMID41423683
PMCPMC12855917

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