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Engineered E. coli swarms record chemical and light inputs in visible patterns

Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology's most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into a living recording device whose swarming colonies capture environmental information in centimeter-scale, visually readable patterns.

Engineered E. coli swarms record chemical and light inputs in visible patterns

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Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology's most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into a living recording device whose swarming colonies capture environmental information in...

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Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology's most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into a living recording device whose swarming colonies capture environmental information in centimeter-scale, visually readable patterns.

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