> What they call “cultured wood” is the arboreal equivalent of lab-grown meat. By growing tree cells in giant vats fed with sugar, the company aims to produce wood more efficiently and with a lower environmental impact than cutting down and processing actual trees.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 12.8 ms ] threadCould also see additive manufacturing the same way, coax trees, shells, etc to grow into desired shapes.
Bioinspired Additive Manufacturing of Hierarchical Materials: From Biostructures to Functions https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/research.0164
Recent Advancements in Biomimetic 3D Printing Materials With Enhanced Mechanical Properties https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3...
Part of a six part series on bio-inspired structures https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10886/3d-printin...
Engineering living and regenerative fungal-bacterial biocomposite structures https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34857911/
For programmable biological robots see https://www.drmichaellevin.org/
*edit, interesting
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456589-a-sliver-of-lab... https://archive.is/xBO16
> What they call “cultured wood” is the arboreal equivalent of lab-grown meat. By growing tree cells in giant vats fed with sugar, the company aims to produce wood more efficiently and with a lower environmental impact than cutting down and processing actual trees.