{"id":118348,"date":"2021-01-11T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-engineer-new-living-materials"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:27:09","slug":"scientists-engineer-new-living-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-engineer-new-living-materials","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Engineer New \u2018Living Materials\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineer-new-living-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created new kinds of \u2018living materials\u2019 by tweaking the base ingredients of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/science-behind-kombucha-fermented-tea-health-claims\">kombucha<\/a> \u2013 the popular tea drink fermented with a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SCOBY\">SCOBY<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This kind of \u2018tea fungus\u2019 \u2013 sometimes called \u2018kombucha mother\u2019 \u2013 can do a lot more than just produce sour-tasting beverages, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>By modifying the mixture of the culture, researchers were able to make <a href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/media-post\/living-materials\/\">engineered living materials<\/a> (ELMs) that could one day have all sorts of practical applications, such as sensing light or detecting contaminants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created new kinds of \u2018living materials\u2019 by tweaking the base ingredients of kombucha \u2013 the popular tea drink fermented with a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (aka SCOBY). This kind of \u2018tea fungus\u2019 \u2013 sometimes called \u2018kombucha mother\u2019 \u2013 can do a lot more than just produce sour-tasting beverages, it seems. By [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}