Advancing towards a global mammalian gene regulation model through single-cell analysis and synthetic biology

Engineering complex genetic functions in mammalian cells will require predictive models of gene regulation. Since gene expression is stochastic, leading to cell-to-cell heterogeneity, these models depend on single-cell measurements. Here, we summarize recent microscopy and sequencing-based single-cell measurements of transcription and its chromatin-based regulation. Then, we describe synthetic biology methods for manipulating chromatin, and...