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Living Photos Use Bacteria as Pixels

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the your-pictures-growing-old-with-you dept.

BrainBlogger writes "Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered bacteria to create living photographs that weigh in at 100 megapixels per square inch. The photos were created by projecting light on "biological film" -- billions of genetically engineered E. coli growing in dishes of agar."

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  1. Respect life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That bacteria has every much of a right to life as you! Boycott anti-bacteria soap and walking!

    Who do some people think they are--the pinnacle of creation, or something?

  2. Hmmm. by cocoamix · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that's what an intelligently designed life-form looks like.

  3. Beware by Profcrab · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Mooooom, the picture of Billy is eating Billy."