Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Bacterial cellulose spheroids as building blocks for 3D and patterned living materials and for regeneration

  • Joaquin Caro-Astorga,
  • Kenneth T. Walker,
  • Natalia Herrera,
  • Koon-Yang Lee,
  • Tom Ellis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25350-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Bacterial cellulose is a promising cheap-to-produce programmable engineered living material. Here the authors present a method for production of spheroids for use as engineerable building blocks able to sense and respond to chemical inputs.