Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Programmable microbial ink for 3D printing of living materials produced from genetically engineered protein nanofibers

  • Anna M. Duraj-Thatte,
  • Avinash Manjula-Basavanna,
  • Jarod Rutledge,
  • Jing Xia,
  • Shabir Hassan,
  • Arjirios Sourlis,
  • Andrés G. Rubio,
  • Ami Lesha,
  • Michael Zenkl,
  • Anton Kan,
  • David A. Weitz,
  • Yu Shrike Zhang,
  • Neel S. Joshi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26791-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Living cells can precisely assemble to build 3D functional architectures. Here the authors produce an extrudable microbial ink entirely from the engineered cells, which can be further programmed to 3D print functional living materials.