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Published online 23 November 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051121-8
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Bacterial films turn to photography
Students engineer a win with bio-parts.
Using parts from a toolkit developed by genetic engineers, a team of students has created light-sensitive bacteria that work as photographic film. It's an example of synthetic biology: a new way of thinking about life that owes as much to Henry Ford as Charles Darwin.
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