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May 31, 2013 02:57 pm PDT
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E. coli engineered into an analogcomputer
Synthetic biology researchers at MIT are creating simple analog computers in living cells, complete with fluorescent "displays." Rahul Sarpeshkar and Timothy K. Lu engineered genetic circuits in E. coli so that the bacteria glows with a brightness determined by the amount of certain chemicals surrounding it.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TP059Z3jtOw/story01.htm
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