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Bacteria are engineered with pattern-generating circuits to produce self-organized materials that can function as pressure sensors.

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Figure 1: The strategy for using engineered bacteria to create composite materials.

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  1. Neydis Moreno Morales and Megan N. McClean are at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA,

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  2. Neydis Moreno Morales is also in the Biophysics Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA,

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Morales, N., McClean, M. Engineered bacteria self-organize to sense pressure. Nat Biotechnol 35, 1045–1047 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3992

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