Biofilm Lithography (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Biofilm Lithography

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By using engineered bacteria that stick to surfaces when illuminated with light, Stanford researchers are able to pattern bacterial biofilms with 25 micrometer resolution. This image is of bacteria tagged with red fluorescent protein and the total size of the image is roughly 16 millimeters by 13 millimeters.

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Xiaofan Jin and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

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