It seems like the E. Coli bacterium can do more than provide food-poisoning – it can serve as a form of photographic film. Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco are using the genetically-modified, light-sensitive bacterium to darken an image-recording chemical and "print" a monochromatic image. One potential use: Development of nano-factories where "substances are produced at locations precisely defined by light beams." Read the story in New Scientist.
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