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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Main Authors: Kara R Lind, Tom Sizmur, Saida Benomar, Anthony Miller, Ludovico Cademartiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24963716/pdf/?tool=EBI