{"id":73497,"date":"2017-10-26T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/this-living-touch-screen-is-made-out-of-bacteria-and-gold"},"modified":"2017-10-26T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T12:42:29","slug":"this-living-touch-screen-is-made-out-of-bacteria-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/this-living-touch-screen-is-made-out-of-bacteria-and-gold","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018Living Touch Screen\u2019 Is Made out of Bacteria and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rzrrwm0eeck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A demonstration of the pressure sensor built by bacteria in action as a researcher taps out some Morse code.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As wonderfully bizarre as it sounds, growing touch screens from a bacterial soup isn\u2019t the team\u2019s ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists have long sought to blur the line between the inorganic and organic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nbt.3992.html\">explain<\/a> Neydis Morales and Dr. Megan McClean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were not involved in the work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/25\/this-living-touch-screen-is-made-out-of-bacteria-and-gold\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0c931800fa-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-0c931800fa-58220945\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/25\/this-living-touch-scre...a-58220945<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demonstration of the pressure sensor built by bacteria in action as a researcher taps out some Morse code. As wonderfully bizarre as it sounds, growing touch screens from a bacterial soup isn\u2019t the team\u2019s ultimate goal. Materials scientists have long sought to blur the line between the inorganic and organic, explain Neydis Morales and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73497","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}