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Brian Wang

MIT Media LabORCID 0000-0002-3769-9455Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Kevin M. EsveltiD· 2 shared Abraham M. Kleinman· 1 shared Andrés FábregaiD· 1 shared Andrew Bo LiuiD· 1 shared Andrew Chi-Chih YaoiD· 1 shared Anjali GopaliD· 1 shared Ari N MachtingeriD· 1 shared Ben Weinstein-RauniD· 1 shared

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Evaluation of antibiotic and peptide vaccine strategies for mirror bacterial infections

Abraham M. Kleinman, Joe A. Torres, Brian Wang

This study evaluates antibiotic and peptide vaccine strategies against mirror bacteria, finding existing antibiotics ineffective but their enantiomers and D-peptide vaccines promising.

bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology

Exact-match search with functional variant prediction enables automated DNA screening

Dana Gretton, Brian Wang, Rey Edison, Leonard Newton Foner, Jens Berlips, Theia Vogel, Martin Kysel, W Q Chen, Francesca Sage-Ling, Lynn Van Hauwe, Stephen Wooster, Helena Cozzarini, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Erika Alden DeBenedictis, Andrew Bo Liu, , Kevin M. Esvelt

The paper introduces a method combining exact-match search with functional variant prediction to automate DNA synthesis screening for controlled genes.

bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2024 · PreprintSynthetic Biology

Virus-like DNA tracers for characterizing wastewater-based pathogen monitoring systems

Anjali Gopal, Ari N Machtinger, Brian Wang, Daniel P. Rice, William John Bradshaw, Michael R. McLaren, Kevin M. Esvelt

The paper introduces virus-like DNA tracers to improve the accuracy and resolution of wastewater-based pathogen monitoring systems by assessing assay performance and signal decay.

bioRxiv · Dec 24, 2023 · PreprintSynthetic Biology