Live, gold-dusted bacteria used in bioelectronic device

Ravi Saraf has gilded living creatures, but that's as far as his resemblance goes with Auric Goldfinger, the fictional villain in the 1964 James Bond movie.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemical engineer used bacteria, not another human, and his goal was to explore electrical devices that could lead to important technological advances, not to take over the world.

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