{"id":188505,"date":"2024-05-01T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/marriage-of-synthetic-biology-and-3d-printing-produces-programmable-living-materials"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:28:20","slug":"marriage-of-synthetic-biology-and-3d-printing-produces-programmable-living-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/marriage-of-synthetic-biology-and-3d-printing-produces-programmable-living-materials","title":{"rendered":"Marriage of synthetic biology and 3D printing produces programmable living materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/marriage-of-synthetic-biology-and-3d-printing-produces-programmable-living-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid \u201cengineered living materials\u201d are made by embedding cells in an inanimate matrix that\u2019s formed in a desired shape. Now, researchers report in <i>ACS Central Science<\/i> that they have 3D printed a bioink containing plant cells that were then genetically modified, producing programmable materials. Applications could someday include biomanufacturing and sustainable construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid \u201cengineered living materials\u201d are made by embedding cells in an inanimate matrix that\u2019s formed in a desired shape. Now, researchers report in ACS Central Science that they have 3D printed a bioink [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,3,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188505","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}