Material-based tactics have attracted extensive attention in driving the functional evolution of
organisms. In aiming to design steerable bioartificial organisms to scavenge pathogenic …

The diagnosis of bacterial infections remains a major challenge in medicine. Although
numerous contrast agents have been developed to image bacteria, their clinical impact has …

Real-time chemical sensing is crucial for applications in environmental and health
monitoring. Biosensors can detect a variety of molecules through genetic circuits that use …

Bacterial biosensors, or bactosensors, are promising agents for medical and environmental
diagnostics. However, the lack of scalable frameworks to systematically program ligand …

Living cells have evolved to sense various environmental stimuli, thus presenting a novel
platform to engineer bio-sensing devices. Owing to the ease of genetic modification and …

The integration of synthetic biology and soft robotics can fundamentally advance sensory,
diagnostic, and therapeutic functionality of bioinspired machines. However, such integration …

Engineered living materials could have the capacity to self-repair and self-replicate, sense
local and distant disturbances in their environment, and respond with functionalities for …

Natural biological materials exhibit remarkable properties: self-assembly from simple raw
materials, precise control of morphology, diverse physical and chemical properties, self …

The design of compartmentalized colloids that exhibit biomimetic properties is providing
model systems for developing synthetic cell-like entities (protocells). Inspired by the cell …

Engineered living materials (ELMs) embed living cells in a biopolymer matrix to create
materials with tailored functions. While bottom-up assembly of macroscopic ELMs with a de …