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Engineered bacterial biofilms for biotechnological applications

Nona Hashemi1, Karen O Osiro2, Octavio L Franco3

  • 1Department of Nanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA.

Trends in Biotechnology
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Keywords:
biofilm life cycleengineered bacterial biofilmsengineered living materialsmicrobial biosensingsynthetic biology

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