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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Autores principales: Lind, Kara R., Sizmur, Tom, Benomar, Saida, Miller, Anthony, Cademartiri, Ludovico
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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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author Lind, Kara R.
Sizmur, Tom
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Miller, Anthony
Cademartiri, Ludovico
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description 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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spelling pubmed-40710332014-06-27 LEGO(®) Bricks as Building Blocks for Centimeter-Scale Biological Environments: The Case of Plants Lind, Kara R. Sizmur, Tom Benomar, Saida Miller, Anthony Cademartiri, Ludovico PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2014-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4071033/ /pubmed/24963716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100867 Text en © 2014 Lind et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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