{"id":210755,"date":"2010-01-21T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:25:54","slug":"is-there-nothing-e-coli-cannot-do-the-borg-edition-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/210755","title":{"rendered":"Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? The Borg Edition | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my book <em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  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&#8211;and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/10\/30\/the-clock-that-breeds\/\">blogged<\/a> a fresh example, courtesy of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v463\/n7279\/abs\/nature08753.html\">new paper&#8217;s<\/a> in Nature, and the journal put together a lovely video of the bacteria in hive-mind performance. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pnjdAr4EjI0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GHQy6X4BiKUTRElVtbx3ti9Yeio\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/ArEe3LStH3E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/qe6vmcrHEx8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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&#8211;and, in the process, has been engineered to do all sorts of remarkable things. In 2008, I blogged a fresh example, courtesy of Jeff Hasty and his colleagues. They retooled the bacteria to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}