{"id":6214,"date":"2010-01-23T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/is-there-nothing-e-coli-cannot-do-the-borg-edition-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:08:13","slug":"is-there-nothing-e-coli-cannot-do-the-borg-edition-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/is-there-nothing-e-coli-cannot-do-the-borg-edition-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? The Borg Edition | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my book <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrocosm-coli-New-Science-Life%2Fdp%2F037542430X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1190687076%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life<\/a>,<\/em> I describe how this humble germ helped make modern biology possible&ndash;and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/10\/30\/the-clock-that-breeds\/\">blogged<\/a> a fresh example, courtesy of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/biodynamics.ucsd.edu\/profiles2\/jeff.htm\">Jeff Hasty<\/a> and his colleagues. They retooled the bacteria to flash in clock-like rhythms. Now Hasty has taken another step forward, rejiggering E. coli so that millions of bacteria can flash in waves. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v463\/n7279\/abs\/nature08753.html\">new paper&rsquo;s<\/a> in Nature, and the journal put together a lovely video of the bacteria in hive-mind performance. Check it out below.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b29b2_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b29b2_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b29b2_ArEe3LStH3E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b29b2_qe6vmcrHEx8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, I describe how this humble germ helped make modern biology possible&ndash;and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I blogged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/is-there-nothing-e-coli-cannot-do-the-borg-edition-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}