Gas Sensors (IMAGE)

Rice University

Gas Sensors

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Rice University scientists have created programmed bacteria that serve as gas sensors to help them "see" into soil and learn about the behavior of the microbial communities within. When the engineered bacterium receives genetic information from another bacterium, it releases a gas to "report" the transaction.

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Jonathan Silberg and Shelly Cheng/Rice University

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