Team:TU-Eindhoven/Demonstrate
Demonstrate
Several months ago, we set out on a mission to realize a living material. In our design page, we defined our major requirements and preferences. We have spent several months perfecting the parts of our living device to meet those requirements. But did we manage to produce a viable living material?
A viable gel platform
We originally aimed to create a living material that would be modular, safe and viable. As our results have demonstrated, our adhesin-hydrogel platform successfully reduced bacterial leakage when comparing with traditional E. coli not expressing the adhesin. We also succeeded in making our hydrogel from pharmaceutical grade dextran, and we also have shown that bacteria can thrive in the gel for
