{"id":74275,"date":"2017-12-08T01:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-created-a-platform-that-prints-with-living-matter"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:08","slug":"researchers-created-a-platform-that-prints-with-living-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-created-a-platform-that-prints-with-living-matter","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Created a Platform That Prints With Living Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-created-a-platform-that-prints-with-living-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3D printing has come a long way. In a new study, scientists explore the potential of using bacteria-laced ink to print living materials.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-astronauts-can-now-3d-print-pizzas-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pizza<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-devise-method-for-recycling-astronaut-urine-to-make-3d-printing-plastics-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urine-based space plastic<\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-scientist-is-3d-printing-blood-vessels-for-sick-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blood vessels,<\/a> it seems there\u2019s no limit to what can be 3D printed. A new 3D printing platform, created by ETH researchers led by Professor Andr\u00e9 Studart, head of the Laboratory for Complex Materials, is advancing the process by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-12-d-printed-minifactories-materials-bacteria-loaded-inks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working with living materials.<\/a> The specially designed material is actually an ink infused with bacteria. The machine is then able to print living biochemical designs for a wide variety of purposes, which vary depending on the bacteria used. Their research has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/12\/eaao6804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Advances.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-created-platform-prints-living-matter\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-created-platform-prints-living-matter\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing has come a long way. In a new study, scientists explore the potential of using bacteria-laced ink to print living materials. From pizza to urine-based space plastic and even blood vessels, it seems there\u2019s no limit to what can be 3D printed. A new 3D printing platform, created by ETH researchers led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74381,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275\/revisions\/74381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}