A paper co-authored by Cheemeng Tan was highlighted by Nature Nanotech in “News & Views” http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v8/n8/full/nnano.2013.156.html. It was also one of Futurity’s “Top Stories”: http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/artificial-cells-show-why-crowding-is-key/.

Molecular crowding shapes gene expression in synthetic cellular nanosystems. Cheemeng Tan, Saumya Saurabh, Marcel P. Bruchez, Russell Schwartz  & Philip LeDuc
Nature Nanotechnology  8: 602–608 (2013)  doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.132

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v8/n8/full/nnano.2013.132.html