Congratulations to Sara and Bobby for their new publication in Nature Communications! The team achieved autonomous assembly of a centimeter scale living material made up of C. crescentus cells and a secreted protein matrix. This material has genetically tunable physical properties, and is capable of cadmium absorption and enzymatic electron carrier reduction. In addition, it can be grown simply (we tested it out in multiple labs with multiple researchers), be shaped or dried into a hard pellet, and seed new growth.

Check out the publication here.

Learn more about the technology direct from Caroline, Sara, and Bobby in this vid: