Biopixels developed from bioluminescent E. coli bacteria

Researchers from the University of California San Diego managed to develop "biopxels" - made from bioluminescent E. coli bacteria. The researchers managed to sync a colony of bacteria using quorum sensing. Each colony is thus a single "pixel". The researchers produced a "chip" which holds 13,000 colony-pixels (a total of about 50 million bacteria).

This technology isn't likely to lead us to biology TVs, but the researchers do hope to develop this technology for biological sensors.

Posted: Jan 02,2012 by Ron Mertens