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Magnet-Making Bacteria: Future Computers?

you think your computer has got bugs in it, wait till you hear this: scientists are working with a strain of magnet-making bacteria that may one day become part of a biological computer. When the bacteria ingest iron, proteins inside their bodies interact with it to produce tiny crystals of the mineral magnetite, the most...

Magnet-Making Bacteria: Future Computers?
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