Engineered 'living materials' could help clean up water pollution one day
Water pollution is both an environmental and humanitarian issue that can affect ecosystems and human health alike.
- Water pollution is both an environmental and humanitarian issue that can affect ecosystems and human health alike.
- We’re hopeful that the materials we’re developing could be one tool available to help combat this problem.
- Engineering a living material
The “engineered living material” our team has been working on contains programmed bacteria embedded in a soft hydrogel material. - The hydrogel that forms the base of the material has similar properties to Jell-O – it’s soft and made mostly of water.