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Biofabrication

Ritu Raman

Technology & society

Biofabrication

By Ritu Raman, the d'Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Press · 2021

You are a biological machine whose movement is powered by skeletal muscle, just as a car is a machine whose movement is powered by an engine. If you can be built from the bottom up with biological materials, other machines can be as well. This is the idea driving biofabrication: building with living cells. Part of the MIT Press' Essential Knowledge series, "Biofabrication" offers an introduction to how materials and machines powered by cells can tackle challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.

From Summer 2022 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Open Library.