With advances in biotechnology promising a future of lab-grown homes, hamburgers, and even the very shirts on our backs…what won’t be grown from cells in the future? Human cells, plant cells. Self-healing bridges, shops for human body parts. High-tech fabrics, juicy steaks that don’t menace the environment or enrage PETA.All of the above: Examples of things we can build from cells in the future, all possible due to advances in 3-D printing, biotechnology, and demand fueled by shortages of resources and growing population.”As the diverse fields of biology, design, and digital fabrication collide, we are poised to enter a more efficient, more natural technological revolution,” says the introduction to a a new book about this future.Here are five types of things we’ll be growing from cells, according to Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim, co-authors of Super Cells: Building With Biology: Medicine, Architecture, Fashion, Food, Arts and Entertainment…
Full article: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026742/5-things-well-grow-from-cells-in-the-future
From Fast Company 21 April, By Ben Schiller. Edited and condensed by Marco Gervasi for AQOS.
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