Scientists Turn Bacteria Into Transistors to Build Living Circuit Boards

These Transistors Engineered With Bacteria Are Literally Alive, if a Little Slow

Life imitates tech, kind of.

Scientists Turn Bacteria Into Transistors to Build Living Circuit Boards

Five engineered bacterial strains can be rearranged to add, route and process chemical signals.

MIT Creates Living Transistors, Bacteria Colonies Capable of Switching Signals and Adding Numbers in a Petri Dish

Researchers at MIT have taken a common plant surface microbe and turned colonies of it into working switches. Those switches link up through chemical messages so the whole arrangement can carry out basic math and route information the way a simple circuit does. The work, published in Nature Chemical Biology, rests on just five engineered [...]

Environmental News Network - MIT Engineers Connect Bacteria to Create Living Transistors

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish.