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Living circuit boards built by printing bacterial transistors.

Aug 2026 · Nature Chemical Biology · 1 citation · 59 references
Medicine

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This work demonstrates that only five cell types, each encoding a simple operation, can be scaled to create complex computational operations, and designs bacteria that can be easily reconfigured to perform computations on a solid surface.

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