Researchers use 3-D printing techniques to build 3-D Microbial Commmunities Researchers used a laser to activate cross-linking in a gelatin mold, which contained randomly scattered bacterium. The scientists are able to trap the bacterium in certain areas, creating a 3-D structure of the population of bacteria. This study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could allow researchers to study how the architechture of a population of microbes affects the flow of cellular communication. Read more and see a video of the cells here: the-scientist/?articles.view/articleNo/37807/title/Building-3-D-Microbial-Communities/ J.L. Connell et al., “3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities,” PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1309729110, 2013. -
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:42:23 +0000
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