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Briefing
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- Bio IoT Research – Researchers Raphael Kim and Stefan Poslad of Queen Mary University of London published paper on potential of bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) to make bio Internet-of-Things in arxiv.org on June 17, 2019
- Bacteria and Computer Similarities – E. coli has built-in engine called flagella, receptors that sense environment including temperature, light, chemicals, etc., stores information in DNA and processes it using ribosomes
- Biohacking – Do-it-yourself (DIY) biotechnology kits now already allow E.coli to be reprogrammed to glow in the dark, among other things
- Applications – Can be deployed in sea and smart cities to sense toxins and pollutants, gather and transmit data, as well as treat diseases in body
- Problems – Bacteria cannot be tracked easily as they do not have equivalent of global positioning systems (GPS) like in devices, and they can be used to spread disease
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Healthcare/Health Sciences
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Function
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Research and Development
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Organization
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Queen Mary University of London
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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November 1, 2019
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