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Engineering microbial consortia for distributed signal processing

Source: Nature - Biotechnology • Published: 18 Jul 2026, 00:00

Engineering microbial consortia for distributed signal processing

Describes a method that distributes sensing across microbial communities and decodes their time-resolved collective responses to infer multiplexed chemical inputs.

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  • Central goal in biology is to infer input signals from measurable readouts
  • Engineered biosensors are usually built to respond selectively to single inputs
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