Wednesday, January 04, 2006

New Scientist Breaking News - Living camera uses bacteria to capture image

Have you read PREY by Michael Crichton??

New Scientist Breaking News - Living camera uses bacteria to capture image: "A dense bed of light-sensitive bacteria has been developed as a unique kind of photographic film. Although it takes 4 hours to take a picture and only works in red light, it also delivers extremely high resolution.

The “living camera” uses light to switch on genes in a genetically modified bacterium that then cause an image-recording chemical to darken. The bacteria are tiny, allowing the sensor to deliver a resolution of 100 megapixels per square inch."

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