{"id":211782,"date":"2025-04-18T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-living-building-material-forms-bone-like-structures-and-could-one-day-repair-itself"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:06:45","slug":"this-living-building-material-forms-bone-like-structures-and-could-one-day-repair-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-living-building-material-forms-bone-like-structures-and-could-one-day-repair-itself","title":{"rendered":"This Living Building Material Forms Bone-Like Structures and Could One Day Repair Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-living-building-material-forms-bone-like-structures-and-could-one-day-repair-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder engineers have long <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2025\/03\/10\/darpa-wants-to-grow-enormous-living-structures-in-space\/\">dreamed of harnessing these powers<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/02\/15\/this-startup-is-making-ultra-strong-building-panels-out-of-grass\/\">human-made structures<\/a>. Now, scientists have combined fungus and bacteria to create a living material that stays alive for up to a month and can form bone-like structures. The researchers say this approach could one day be used to create structural components that repair themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about our results and look forward to engineering more complex and larger structures,\u201d Chelsea Heveran at Montana State University, who led the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2476888-living-material-made-from-fungus-could-make-buildings-more-sustainable\/\">told <em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWhen viability is sufficiently high, we could start really imparting lasting biological characteristics to the material that we care about, such as self-healing, sensing, or environmental remediation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no wonder engineers have long dreamed of harnessing these powers in human-made structures. Now, scientists have combined fungus and bacteria to create a living material that stays alive for up to a month and can form bone-like structures. The researchers say this approach could one day be used to create structural components that repair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211782","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}