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What if the materials we are accustomed to using could change, move, live?
Consider this: A shirt that could self heal and grow back a sleeve if it rips off. A couch that can grow when you want to rest your feet. A self-sustaining table you'd have to water and keep in the sunlight, just like a plant.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing "living materials" from biological particles that could be used in everyday items.
"We are trying to make living materials compared, so people could use them instead of the non-living materials that are popular today," Timothy Lu, associate professor at MIT, told Mashable. "We want to leverage the ability of biology. With things such as trees and bone are materials made without human intervention, we want to grow similar materials from the ground up." Read more...
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