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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. ~ Jimi Hendrix

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2011

Jeff Hasty (UC San Diego), Living Neon Sign

-made of bioluminescent bacteria-

The smaller chips contain about 500 blinking bacterial colonies or biopixels.

-thousands of fluorescent E. coli bacteria make up a biopixel-

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Jeff Hasty (UC San Diego), Living Neon Sign

-tiny microfluidic chips allow the researchers to synchronize the bacteria to fluoresce or blink in unison-

More at: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/bioluminescent-billboards.html

Also at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/researchers_create_living_neon_signs_composed_of_millions_of_glowing_bacter/

Thanx to Petra Tikulin for the link.

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Liam Young, Bioluminescent Billboards