Fieldstone Bio, a 2023 startup spun out of MIT, is revolutionizing environmental sensing by utilizing genetically programmed microbes that change color upon detecting specific substances. Co-founder Brandon Fields highlights that these organisms can perform trillions of calculations in their environment, offering potential insights that current technology misses. The company has recently secured $5 million in seed funding to test its innovative microbial sensors in real-world scenarios, which can be deployed using drones to gather and visualize critical data about nutrients or hazardous materials in various settings.
They've evolved to sense and respond to information. It's just trillions of calculations going on at all times all around us.
The key technology out of Chris' lab is this idea of, 'How do we actually visualize these cells from really far away?'.
We isolate microbes from the environments we want to sense. We build our sensors the DNA pieces, and we just drop them into these different ones.
Once the microbes are ready, Fieldstone will broadcast them using drones.
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