The Future of Engineering Devices, Systems and Materials: Made from Bacteria?

Members of the public will get to see how revolutionary scientists and engineers are proposing to make counters, sensors, calculators and other devices out of living bacteria at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. The researchers from Imperial College London will be manning a stand which will allow exhibition visitors to find out more about the brand new science of 'synthetic biology.' Posters and interactive computer stands will describe how pioneering researchers at Imperial are modifying DNA, which is then put into e-coli bacteria cells, to make living devices that do not exist in the natural world.