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It’s Alive!: A Living Smart Material

Bioengineers from the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a new form of composite material by incorporating yeast into a gel. They demonstrated that the composite can change size depending on the nutrients present around the gel and that different shapes can be formed by genetically manipulating the yeast. Continue reading It’s Alive!: A Living Smart Material

February 13, 20206 Comments
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Scientists engineer ingestible medical devices that can be degraded with light

Scientists engineer a light-sensitive material that can be used to create ingestible medical devices. These devices can then be easily degraded after their function has been performed. Continue reading Scientists engineer ingestible medical devices that can be degraded with light

February 6, 2020February 5, 20201 Comment

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