LEGO(®) Bricks as Building Blocks for Centimeter-Scale Biological Environments: The Case of Plants

LEGO bricks are commercially available interlocking pieces of plastic that are conventionally used as toys. We describe their use to build engineered environments for cm-scale biological systems, in particular plant roots. Specifically, we take advantage of the unique modularity of these building bl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lind, Kara R., Sizmur, Tom, Benomar, Saida, Miller, Anthony, Cademartiri, Ludovico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100867
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Sumario:LEGO bricks are commercially available interlocking pieces of plastic that are conventionally used as toys. We describe their use to build engineered environments for cm-scale biological systems, in particular plant roots. Specifically, we take advantage of the unique modularity of these building blocks to create inexpensive, transparent, reconfigurable, and highly scalable environments for plant growth in which structural obstacles and chemical gradients can be precisely engineered to mimic soil.

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