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Lightening the load in synthetic biology

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A new biological device known as a 'load driver' improves the performance of synthetic circuits by insulating genetic parts from each other.

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Figure 1: Using buffers in electronics and synthetic biology.

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  1. Eric Klavins is at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,

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Klavins, E. Lightening the load in synthetic biology. Nat Biotechnol 32, 1198–1200 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3089

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