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Microbial Nanobionics pp 177–192Cite as

Microbial Nanobionic Engineering: Translational and Transgressive Science of an Antidisciplinary Approximation

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Abstract

Combining in a single space microbiology, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and biosensors requires a different approach to those used so far. First of all, you need to defeat the walls between the disciplines, in which the correct study of the interaction of nanomaterials with biological systems (microbial networks in this case) provide the information that will make it possible to develop novel applications. In this way, the description of biochemical pathways that produce small-molecule antibiotics and anticancer agents can be great platforms for the use of models of synthetic biology with which to design new organisms useful in biotechnology. Also, in this interesting world of bio-nano-things where reuse and reengineering of biological cells are possible, current pharmacological capabilities, in addition to procedures for the treatment, control, and prevention of diseases can be increased. Additionally, coupled with microfluidics in miniaturized devices, this promises to change all screening platforms used so far, where these engineered microorganisms can be used extensively to obtain on-site analysis. Likewise, it is fascinating to contemplate the alternative of designing factories of nanomaterials using this integrative discipline for groups and cellular associations. But just as important as the study and fusion of new disciplines, it is important to follow the postulate of biomimicry, in which the elements of nature serve as inspiration for the solution of problems with applications in medicine and engineering, with the wide possibility that this great innovative potential can be applied to new enterprises.

It is thus under the mantle of bioinspiration that this chapter seeks to develop a translational approach in which several disciplines converge to obtain products and services that transcend from basic science to the development of promising applications in industry.

“Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.”

—Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition – or the hope – that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.”

—Jacques Monod (1910–1976), Chance and Necessity

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Bueno, J. (2019). Microbial Nanobionic Engineering: Translational and Transgressive Science of an Antidisciplinary Approximation. In: Prasad, R. (eds) Microbial Nanobionics. Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16383-9_8

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