Co-investigators Ron Weiss , Timothy Lu
Project Website http://www.media.mit.edu/projects/printing-living-materials/overview/
How can biological organisms be incorporated into product, fashion, and architectural design to enable the generation of multi-functional, responsive, and potentially adaptable objects? This research pursues the intersection of synthetic biology, digital fabrication, and design. The goal is to incorporate engineered biological organisms into inorganic and organic materials to vary material properties in space and time. We aim to use synthetic biology to engineer organisms with varied output functionalities and digital fabrication tools to spatially pattern these organisms and induce their gene expression.