LEGO® Bricks as Building Blocks for Centimeter-Scale Biological Environments: The Case of Plants | Zendy

Kara R. Lind | Zendy; Tom Sizmur | Zendy; Saida Benomar | Zendy; Tony Miller | Zendy; Ludovico Cademartiri | Zendy

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LEGO® Bricks as Building Blocks for Centimeter-Scale Biological Environments: The Case of Plants

Author(s) -

Kara R. Lind,

Tom Sizmur,

Saida Benomar,

Tony Miller,

Ludovico Cademartiri

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

plos one

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 332

ISSN - 1932-6203

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0100867

Subject(s) - modularity (biology) , scalability , computer science , scale (ratio) , interlocking , biomimetics , engineering , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , biology , operating system , physics , quantum mechanics , genetics

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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