a salt- loving bacterium may offer a solution for one of the most nagging problems of optical communications: non-availability of cheap and speedy optical switches. Indian scientists have recently demonstrated that a protein found in the cell membrane of Halobacterium halobium functions as an optical switch, when integrated with lasers.
The scientists
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