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San Diego’s Algal Biofuels Research Enterprise Continues Rapid Growth
Despite the sluggish economy, San Diego’s research efforts to produce new transportation fuels from algae continue to grow at a rapid pace, generating more than double the number of jobs for local workers in 2011 than were available in the region just two years ago.
Researchers Create Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria
In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs. Their achievement, detailed in this week’s advance online issue of the journal Nature, involved attaching a fluorescent protein to the biological clocks of the bacteria, synchronizing the clocks of the thousands of bacteria within a colony, then synchronizing thousands of the blinking bacterial colonies to glow on and off in unison.
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- Algae Biofuels Inject Money into the Southwest's Economy (KPBS)
- "Neon Signs" Made with Bacteria (MSNBC)
- Scientists Create Living LED Screens Out of Glowing Bacteria (LA Times)
- Biopixels: A Psychedelic Way to Detect Heavy Metal Pollutants (The Atlantic)
- UCSD turns bacteria into "blinking light bulbs" (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Illuminated Bacterial Cells Form "Neon Signs", Used to Detect Arsenic (Daily Tech)
- Researchers Create Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria (HealthCanal.com)
- Bacterial Rejuvenation (The Scientist)
- Lowly Bacteria Find a Key to Immortality (Union Tribune)
- UCSD Nerve Damage Research Shows Promise (10 News)
- Genes Discovered that Repair Nerves After Injury (Medical News Today)
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