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A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric
Living organisms constantly maintain their structural and biochemical integrity by the critical means of response, healing, and regeneration. Inanimate objects, on the other hand, are axiomatically considered incapable of responding to damage and healing it, leading to the profound negative environm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28819314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09105-4 |
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author | Raab, Neta Davis, Joe Spokoini-Stern, Rachel Kopel, Moran Banin, Ehud Bachelet, Ido |
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description | Living organisms constantly maintain their structural and biochemical integrity by the critical means of response, healing, and regeneration. Inanimate objects, on the other hand, are axiomatically considered incapable of responding to damage and healing it, leading to the profound negative environmental impact of their continuous manufacturing and trashing. Objects with such biological properties would be a significant step towards sustainable technology. In this work we present a feasible strategy for driving regeneration in fabric by means of integration with a bacterial biofilm to obtain a symbiotic-like hybrid - the fabric provides structural framework to the biofilm and supports its growth, whereas the biofilm responds to mechanical tear by synthesizing a silk protein engineered to self-assemble upon secretion from the cells. We propose the term crossbiosis to describe this and other hybrid systems combining organism and object. Our strategy could be implemented in other systems and drive sensing of integrity and response by regeneration in other materials as well. |
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spelling | pubmed-55611422017-08-18 A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric Raab, Neta Davis, Joe Spokoini-Stern, Rachel Kopel, Moran Banin, Ehud Bachelet, Ido Sci Rep Article Living organisms constantly maintain their structural and biochemical integrity by the critical means of response, healing, and regeneration. Inanimate objects, on the other hand, are axiomatically considered incapable of responding to damage and healing it, leading to the profound negative environmental impact of their continuous manufacturing and trashing. Objects with such biological properties would be a significant step towards sustainable technology. In this work we present a feasible strategy for driving regeneration in fabric by means of integration with a bacterial biofilm to obtain a symbiotic-like hybrid - the fabric provides structural framework to the biofilm and supports its growth, whereas the biofilm responds to mechanical tear by synthesizing a silk protein engineered to self-assemble upon secretion from the cells. We propose the term crossbiosis to describe this and other hybrid systems combining organism and object. Our strategy could be implemented in other systems and drive sensing of integrity and response by regeneration in other materials as well. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5561142/ /pubmed/28819314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09105-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Raab, Neta Davis, Joe Spokoini-Stern, Rachel Kopel, Moran Banin, Ehud Bachelet, Ido A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title | A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title_full | A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title_fullStr | A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title_full_unstemmed | A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title_short | A symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
title_sort | symbiotic-like biologically-driven regenerating fabric |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28819314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09105-4 |
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