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Engineered Escherichia coli could open the door to more sustainable routes to new drugs and other chemicals.
Escherichia coli cultures can produce compounds that aren’t found in nature when activated by light. Credit: Choksawatdikorn/Science Photo Library
Bacteria can be turned into living factories that churn out complex molecules using reactions catalysed by light1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00275-8
