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James J Collins

MIT; Wyss Institute, Harvard; Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Verified email at mit.edu
Cited by 126861

How antibiotics kill bacteria: from targets to networks

MA Kohanski, DJ Dwyer, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
… & Collins, JJ Gyrase inhibitors induce an oxidative damage cellular death pathway in …
Kohanski, MA, Dwyer, DJ, Wierzbowski, J., Cottarel, G. & Collins, JJ Mistranslation of membrane …

Stochasticity in gene expression: from theories to phenotypes

M Kaern, TC Elston, WJ Blake, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
Genetically identical cells exposed to the same environmental conditions can show significant
variation in molecular content and marked differences in phenotypic characteristics. This …

[HTML][HTML] End-to-end design of wearable sensors

…, E Morales-Narváez, F Güder, JJ Collins… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Wearable devices provide an alternative pathway to clinical diagnostics by exploiting
various physical, chemical and biological sensors to mine physiological (biophysical and/or …

Evaluation and management of small-bowel obstruction: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline

…, SE Rowell, F Bokhari, JN Collins… - Journal of Trauma …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) represents as many as 16% of surgical
admissions and more than 300,000 operations annually in the United States. The optimal …

[HTML][HTML] The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

…, J Torrance, C Berthelot, M Muffato, JE Collins… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Zebrafish have become a popular organism for the study of vertebrate gene function 1 , 2 .
The virtually transparent embryos of this species, and the ability to accelerate genetic studies …

A practical method for calculating largest Lyapunov exponents from small data sets

MT Rosenstein, JJ Collins, CJ De Luca - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1993 - Elsevier
Detecting the presence of chaos in a dynamical system is an important problem that is
solved by measuring the largest Lyapunov exponent. Lyapunov exponents quantify the …

Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli

TS Gardner, CR Cantor, JJ Collins - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
It has been proposed 1 that gene-regulatory circuits with virtually any desired property can
be constructed from networks of simple regulatory elements. These properties, which include …

[PDF][PDF] Highly efficient reprogramming to pluripotency and directed differentiation of human cells with synthetic modified mRNA

…, ZD Smith, A Meissner, GQ Daley, AS Brack, JJ Collins… - Cell stem cell, 2010 - cell.com
Clinical application of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is limited by the low efficiency
of iPSC derivation and the fact that most protocols modify the genome to effect cellular …

[HTML][HTML] A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics

…, DJ Dwyer, B Hayete, CA Lawrence, JJ Collins - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Antibiotic mode-of-action classification is based upon drug-target interaction and whether
the resultant inhibition of cellular function is lethal to bacteria. Here we show that the three …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

…, J Chattopadhyay, RM Cogen, JK Collins… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality
varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have …