{"id":243131,"date":"2026-08-24T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/living-circuit-boards-built-by-printing-bacterial-transistors"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:10:03","slug":"living-circuit-boards-built-by-printing-bacterial-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/living-circuit-boards-built-by-printing-bacterial-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Living circuit boards built by printing bacterial transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-circuit-boards-built-by-printing-bacterial-transistors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It points toward a future in which computation isn\u2019t necessarily confined to silicon. Instead, we could build living materials that sense, communicate, compute, and respond\u2014with the \u201ccircuit board\u201d itself made of living cells.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Electronic circuit boards carry out different operations on the basis of the configuration of their components. Now, equivalent biological circuits are engineered that compute functions on the basis of the spatial arrangement of different bacterial strains printed on a surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It points toward a future in which computation isn\u2019t necessarily confined to silicon. Instead, we could build living materials that sense, communicate, compute, and respond\u2014with the \u201ccircuit board\u201d itself made of living cells. Electronic circuit boards carry out different operations on the basis of the configuration of their components. Now, equivalent biological circuits are engineered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}