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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. New Scientist by alanw · · Score: 4, Informative
    Plenty of bandwidth over at New Scientist

    Complete with a photo of His Noodly Holiness.

  2. webcast of the lecture is here! by dokebi · · Score: 3, Informative

    He gave a talk at the Synthetic Biology seminar at UC Berkeley two weeks ago. The web cast is located here:
    http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.php?se riesid=1906978261
    It's titled "Programming Dynamic Function into Bacteria"

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  3. Interesting. by jd · · Score: 4, Informative

    For images that are essentially monochromatic, this is fine. Actually, a Russian photographer did some ingenious colour photography using monochrome film, but that was sensitive to all frequencies not just one.

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  4. Re:Original link please by spage · · Score: 3, Informative

    The lab's home page is http://www.voigtlab.ucsf.edu/ , but they don't have a news item for this yet. The work seems to be Engineering E. coli to see light and will be in Nature according to their Papers section.

    The most recent presentation slides (PDF) are a hoot, that talk must have been fun.

    Go UCSF!

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