SCIENCE AS ART
It's ALIVE!
Laura Rivera-Tarazona, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Fluorescence image of a shape-morphing living composite coated on a glass slide. The hybrid material is made of baker’s yeast embedded in a polyacrylamide hydrogel. Only living cells that can proliferate in the patterned region are able to deform the hydrogel matrix and expand it to read the word “ALIVE.”
A Second Place winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2020 MRS Spring Meeting.
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