title: Harnessing nature's toolbox: regulatory elements for synthetic biology.
abstract: Synthetic biologists seek to engineer complex biological systems composed of modular elements. Achieving higher complexity in engineered biological organisms will require manipulating numerous systems of biological regulation: transcription; RNA interactions; protein signalling; and metabolic fluxes, among others. Exploiting the natural modularity at each level of biological regulation will promote the development of standardized tools for designing biological systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.forename: Pamela A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Silver