Synthetically engineered biosensors,which can be designed to detect and signal the presence of specific small molecule compounds, beget already unlocked many potential applications by harnessing bacterial cells such as E. coli to sense toxins or enable bioproduction of valuable commodities including fuel, or plastics,and pharmaceuticals. As of yet, however, and scientists beget been challenged to leverage biosensors for employ in eukaryotic cells—which comprise yeast,plants and animalsbecause strategies-to-date are limited in the molecules they can detect and the signals they can produce.
Source: phys.org