The rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including strains that are resistant to last-resort
antibiotics, and the limited ability of antibiotics to eradicate biofilms have necessitated the …

Biomaterials have evolved from inert materials that lack interaction with the body to
biologically active, instructive materials that host and provide signals to surrounding cells …

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 …

Synthetic biology applies genetic tools to engineer living cells and organisms analogous to
the programming of machines. In materials synthetic biology, engineering principles from …

Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Recent years have seen substantial efforts aimed at constructing artificial cells from various
molecular components with the aim of mimicking the processes, behaviours and …

Herein, a method that uses direct‐ink‐write printing to fabricate engineering living materials
(ELMs) that respond by undergoing a programmed shape change in response to specific …

At the intersection of synthetic biology and materials science, the field of engineered living
materials (ELMs) has evolved into a new, standalone discipline. The fusion of …

Stimuli-responsive materials are able to undergo controllable changes in materials
properties in response to external cues. Increasing efforts have been directed towards …

Living materials, which are fabricated by encapsulating living biological cells within a non‐
living matrix, have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their fabrication in spatially …