Red, green, and blue light can be used to control gene expression in engineered E. coli

Monday, May 29, 2017 - 05:32 in Biology & Nature

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria with "multicolor vision"—E. coli that recognize red, green, or blue (RGB) light and, in response to each color, express different genes that perform different biological functions.

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