Microbial biosensors sense and report exposures to stimuli, thereby facilitating our
understanding of environmental processes. Successful design and deployment of …

Synthetic biology offers new tools and capabilities of engineering cells with desired
functions for example as new biosensing platforms leveraging engineered microbes. In the …

The rapid diversification of synthetic biology tools holds promise in making some classically
hard-to-solve environmental problems tractable. Here we review longstanding problems in …

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 …

Highlights•Biosensing devices integrate synthetic biosensors with deployment
platforms.•Microbial sensing devices enable remote sensing and minimal-instrument …

Significant advances have been made in synthetic biology to program information
processing capabilities in cells. While these designs can function predictably in controlled …

Engineering synthetic circuits into intestinal bacteria to sense, record, and respond to in vivo
signals is a promising new approach for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease …

Living cells have evolved to detect and process various signals and can self‐replicate,
presenting an attractive platform for engineering scalable and affordable biosensing …

Microbial biosensors are compact, portable, cost effective, and simple to use, making them
seem eminently suitable for the in situ monitoring of environmental pollution. One promising …

Highlights•Environmentally responsive survival circuitry enable synthetic cell containment.•
Increased genetic stability by engineering sequence and host context.•Control circuits for …