People sometimes gain a sudden idea through insight after being stuck on a problem. Researchers have been studying insight as a crucial component of creative problem-solving in the past decades. However, the role of insight in mathematical problem-solving remains unclear, while mathematics is essential in scientific development and ubiquitous in...
These supplementary materials are in support of the manuscript "Deconstructing synthetic biology across scales: a conceptual approach for training synthetic biologists," in which we describe a framework for synthetic biology training that deconstructs biotechnologies across scales—molecular, circuit/network, cell/cell-free systems, biological communities, and societal—giving students a holistic toolkit to integrate cross-disciplinary...