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Biosensors and Living Diagnostics: When Biology Becomes a Signal

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Synthetic biology is often described as a way to make things: proteins, materials, fuels, medicines, foods, and chemicals that once came from harder or dirtier processes. But biology is also good at noticing things. A cell is already a tiny decision-making system. It senses nutrients, stress, light, toxins, neighbors, temperature, acidity, and chemical traces in its surroundings. It changes behavior when the world changes.

Cell-Free Synthetic Biology: Biology Without Living Cells

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Synthetic biology is usually described through living cells. A microbe is engineered to make a molecule. Yeast produce a protein. Bacteria become sensors. A cell grows, responds, divides, and carries the system inside a membrane. That image is useful, but it is not the whole field. Sometimes the most practical way to use biology is to take the useful machinery out of living cells and run it in a controlled format.