/technologies/sensor-technology/b/blog/posts/engineers-develop-living-circuit-boards-using-bacteria-that-work-like-transistorsMIT has engineered bacteria to function like transistors for living circuit boards. (Image Credit: MIT ) Transistors are used in circuitry to control electrical signal flow. But now there is a bio-inspired one. MIT engineers modified bacteria that caen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/sensor-technology/b/blog/posts/engineers-develop-living-circuit-boards-using-bacteria-that-work-like-transistorsWed, 26 Aug 2026 10:39:53 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4f40dae4-73c4-4fca-b698-98255c823dc2Qbit0<p>Building on <a class="ng-star-inserted" href="/members/dab" target="_blank" data-hveid="0" data-ved="0CAAQ_4QMahcKEwj_-LO3jL6WAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQTA" data-e14adj="t">DAB</a>&#39;s point the real advantage here over electronics isn&#39;t speed, it&#39;s radiation hardiness and biological self-maintenance. For multi-century deep-space missions, a biological processor that feeds on basic nutrients and repairs its own logic gates could survive harsh cosmic radiation long after silicon degradation!</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=30093&AppID=17&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/technologies/sensor-technology/b/blog/posts/engineers-develop-living-circuit-boards-using-bacteria-that-work-like-transistorsWed, 26 Aug 2026 00:14:16 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:4f40dae4-73c4-4fca-b698-98255c823dc2DAB0<p>Could be an interesting way to send out long range probes into the solar system that will take millennia to complete.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=30093&AppID=17&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">