'E. chromi Designer Bacteria' Will Color Your Poop According to What Ails You
Read more: E. chromi Designer Bacteria Will Color Your Poo According to Your Illness | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
E. chromi is an experimental collaboration between designers and scientists working in the field of synthetic biology. Royal College of Art graduates’ James King and Daisy Ginsberg, together with University of Cambridge’s iGEM 2009 Biology team, are developing a cheap, personalized disease monitoring system that works from the inside out. By color-coding diseases and giving a patient an E. Coli bacteria-engineered drink — much like a probiotic shake — sick patients could soon find out what ails them by simply checking the colour of their poop!
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