Today’s Solutions: November 17, 2024

French startup Glowee works on a new concept for the future smart city: It aims to provide street lighting through synthetic biology. It uses the bioluminescent genetics of bacteria living in squids, inserts them in common, non-pathogenic bacteria, which are capsuled in a transparent shell. The light produced by the bacteria would be able to replace street lighting, and in that way strongly reduce electricity consumption.

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