In order to observe how BC is produced by our bacteria, we performed microfluidic time-lapse culture experiments with calcofluor added to stain nascent cellulose production (Supplementary Video 1). We ...

Imperial College London researchers have created 3D building blocks that can heal themselves in response to damage. The engineered living materials (ELMs) exploit biology's ability to heal and ...

Fibrous networks constructed from high aspect ratio protein building blocks are ubiquitous in nature. Despite this ubiquity, the functional advantage of such building blocks over globular proteins is ...