MIT Engineers Biological Transistors Using Living Pantoea Agglomerans Bacteria

By Aamir Khollam · Interesting Engineering · 2026-08-18

Interesting Engineering reports that MIT researchers have developed a method to print bacterial colonies onto agar to function as biological circuits. By utilizing chemical signals instead of electricity, these engineered cells perform logic operations such as OR functions and de

Interesting Engineering reports that MIT researchers have developed a method to print bacterial colonies onto agar to function as biological circuits. By utilizing chemical signals instead of electricity, these engineered cells perform logic operations such as OR functions and de