To raise awareness of important advances in systems and synthetic biology, today we open a new section in this blog: Research Highlights.

Research Highlights will be contributed by members of the Advisory Editorial Board of Molecular Systems Biology and they will cover recent studies on topics related to systems and synthetic biology. These short posts are not intended to represent evaluations of the selected papers. Rather, our hope is that subjective filtering of the literature by our Editorial Board will provide some unique views on the diversity of the field and its progress.

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