The study with E. coli as Maze Solvers (by Dr. Sangram Bagh and his team) is now featured on MIT Technology Review
E. coli thrives in our guts,sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advances—in DNA, biofuels, and Pfizer’s covid vaccine, to name but a few. Now this multitalented bacterium has a new trick: it can solve a classic computational maze problem using distributed computing—dividing up the necessary calculations among different types of genetically engineered cells.
Recent research on this topic was performed by Dr. Sagram Bagh and his students Kathakali, Saswata and Deepro at SINP. It has been recognized in a big way in MIT Technology Review, where the work from India is rarely featured.Here is the link to the article : An E. coli biocomputer solves a maze by sharing the work
A PDF version is also available.
