{"id":141261,"date":"2022-06-28T05:12:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-grown-plant-matter-marks-a-step-towards-3d-printable-wood"},"modified":"2022-06-28T05:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:12:21","slug":"lab-grown-plant-matter-marks-a-step-towards-3d-printable-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lab-grown-plant-matter-marks-a-step-towards-3d-printable-wood","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown plant matter marks a step towards 3D-printable wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-plant-matter-marks-a-step-towards-3d-printable-wood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn\u2019t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process that could one day let us 3D print and grow wood directly into the shape of furniture and other objects.<\/p>\n<p>Wood may be a renewable resource, but we\u2019re <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/global-forest-watch-tracks-deforestation\/30979\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">using it up<\/a> much faster than we\u2019re replenishing it. Deforestation is having a drastic impact on wildlife and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/environment\/tropical-forests-carbon-capture-peak-1990s\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">exacerbating the effects<\/a> of climate change. Since our appetite for wooden products isn\u2019t likely to change, our methods for obtaining it will have to.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, researchers have turned to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/science\/lab-grown-wood\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">growing wood in the lab<\/a>. Not trees \u2013 just the wood itself, not unlike the ongoing work into cultivating animal cells for lab-grown meat, rather than raising live animals and slaughtering them. And now, a team of MIT scientists has demonstrated a new technique that can grow wood-like plant material in the lab, allowing for easy tuning of properties like weight and strength as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn\u2019t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process that could one day let us 3D print and grow wood directly into the shape of furniture and other objects. Wood may be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141261","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=141261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}