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Living Sensors Glow at Change

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Kevin Robinson

Colonies of luminescent bacteria promise to become biological sensors capable of detecting a variety of parameters such as temperature, pressure or specific chemicals. The microbes, engineered at Britain's chemical and biological defense laboratory, glow when they are exposed to changes in pressure, and researchers there hope to make other bacteria that respond to different environmental factors. The bacteria have several types of protein on their cell walls that are sensitive to changes in the environment. When these proteins detect environmental change, they activate genes within the...Read full article

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    Published: August 1998
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