Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Biomaterials made by living systems, while very diverse, generally share similar
organization: different lineages of cells are precisely patterned within a matrix to create a …

Engineered living materials (ELMs) embed living cells in a biopolymer matrix to create
materials with tailored functions. While bottom-up assembly of macroscopic ELMs with a de …

Light is well-established for control of bond breakage but not for control of specific bond
formation in complex environments. We previously engineered the diffusion-limited reactivity …

Materials in nature have fascinating properties that serve as a continuous source of
inspiration for materials scientists. Accordingly, bio-mimetic and bio-inspired approaches …

Engineered living materials (ELMs) are the most relevant contemporary revolution in
materials science and engineering and aim to outperform current examples of" smart," …

In metazoans, living cells achieve capabilities beyond individual cell functionality by
assembling into multicellular tissue structures. These higher-order structures represent …

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are materials composed of or incorporating living cells
as essential functional units. These materials can be created using bottom-up approaches …

Genetic code expansion is a promising genetic engineering technology that incorporates
noncanonical amino acids into proteins alongside the natural set of 20 amino acids. This …

The bacterial extracellular matrix forms autonomously, giving rise to complex material
properties and multicellular behaviors. Synthetic matrix analogues can replicate these …