> bacteria were engineered to make molecules that absorb light in unique ways. > the microbes were buried in soil. > using a drone with a hyperspectral camera, one can "see" where the microbes are buried from ~300 feet away. one of the most sci-fi papers I've seen in awhile.

Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Christopher Voigt go.nature.com/3XRs7Ft

MIT engineers engineered bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of ba… Source: MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shared via the Google app search.app/hxLbkPe4wxDo8d…

We were excited to find this work from the DARPA side. Obviously many use cases! Well done Christopher Voigt MIT Dept of BE 👏👏👏👏 More to come here…

Reading the Microbial Spectrum Chris Voigt and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team have developed a groundbreaking bacterial sensing system that uses engineered microbes to send colorful signals—visible from up to 90 meters away using hyperspectral cameras. read full article: synbiobeta.com/read/reading-t…

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This entire line of research, after being repeatedly selected in rigorous open national competitions for funding, was cut this week as collective political retribution x.com/baym/status/19…

The bacteria are watching. techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/fie…

Just in time for finals 🙇‍♂️: a bacterium designed to live in your gut and keep you performing well with little sleep. Rachel Hopton, Ph.D. Daniel Pascal Brandon Fields #microbiome #synbio #biotech #AirForce MIT Dept of BE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

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Online now @ Cell is the yeast multicellular engineering paper from Fankang Meng - the fruits of his productive PhD. He developed modular synthetic biology tools to bring multicellular behaviours to yeast - adhesion, juxtacrine signalling and more. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Evaluating zero-shot prediction of protein design success Gabriel Rocklin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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This is one of the most underrated papers from the last few months. TL;DR: MIT scientists engineered bacteria that can be seen from hundreds of feet away, using drones or satellites, with hyperspectral cameras. Here is how they did it. > First, they filtered through a database

Hyperspectral cameras, mounted to drones, can be used to see microbes from > 90 meters away. It's now possible to monitor microbes across entire ecosystems. My new Asimov Press essay explains how it works & regulations on releasing genetically-engineered microbes into the wild.

The human genome encodes 391 odorant receptor genes. Most of the proteins they encode, though, haven't been expressed in vitro. We don't know what they sense. A new study reports a better way to express odorant receptors in the lab. The authors find receptors for